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Title: Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley ISBN: 0877281467 Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser Pub. Date: June, 1977 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71
Rating: 4
Summary: Good novel by Mad Uncle Aleister
Comment: This book is kind of longwinded and slow at times. It probably could have been edited down a bit. It might take some time to get into but it's definitely worth it, especially if you have an interest in Crowley & pharmacology.
This is not necessarily a "Just Say No" book. Crowley most definitely describes how good drugs can feel. But then he describes how addiction can control and ruin a person. He honestly describes the celestial highs & infernal lows.
This is a "Just Have Will Power" book--"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be the Whole of the Law." Rather than telling you never to use drugs, he describes what can happen if they are misused.
Crowley describes a brilliant method of overcoming addiction: distancing yourself from your desire, dissociating with it. Crowley advises the addict to be aware of drug cravings and to laugh at them, to simply analyse your craving and marvel at it, rather than immediately giving in to temptation. "Hmm, how strange that I my body should want this drug so badly. Interesting." In this way the Higher Will dissociates from the addicted flesh. Withdrawal symptoms are analysed and dissected as the spasms of a sick body, while the Will acts to carry the body into freedom from substances.
From what I recall, I am not sure that Crowley was able to take his own advice; I think he struggled with heroin and tobacco abuse for the rest of his life, after writing this book. I may be wrong though, do your own research.
All in all, this was a great book with a unique viewpoint on overcoming addictions in order to attain freedom.
Rating: 5
Summary: Definately Worth Reading...
Comment: Diary Of A Drug Fiend appealed to me because I knew someone that was caught up in drug addiction and wanted to know more about it. I wanted to know what it felt like and how the drug user felt. This book totally met my expectations and more, it showed me exactly what I was looking for. In the first instance I began to dislike the book because it seems to glorify drugs but then I suppose that is what it feels like when you are using the drugs. Read a bit further on and it will tell you the real horrors of drugs in the cold light of day. It is obvious that the author knows what he is talking about, but you have to remember that the characters in the book were using the purest form of drugs and so the effects I suppose you could say seem somewhat dramatised, but then someone once said (forgive me for not remembering) that the effects of drugs depend on your state of mind when you are taking them, so each individual user will experience something different. Overall, I would reccomend this book to anyone that has any link whatsoever with drugs or anyone that is thinking of it. It will show you the real horrors by an experienced author!
Rating: 5
Summary: Philosophy, not just drugs
Comment: Anyone who thinks Diary of a Drug Fiend is purely about drugs is wrong. Yes, that is the subject matter of at least 2/3 of the book, but the choice of drugs as the subject matter is immaterial. The author required a highly difficult human condition in order to explain his theories of applying the Will to life. It is interesting to read about underground drug culture in 1922, as such a thing was brand new, the anti-drug laws having been passed just before. But what stands out the most is King Lamus' character, who presents a truly Western method for living, the polar opposite of Eastern philosophy. The back of the book cover speaks about practical magick, but what it must be understood that "magick" refers mainly to psychological control of one's self, rather than anything supernatural.
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Title: The Moonchild by Aleister Crowley ISBN: 0877281475 Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser Pub. Date: January, 1991 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley ISBN: 0877283346 Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser Pub. Date: October, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley ISBN: 0877285160 Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser Pub. Date: June, 1986 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Do What Thou Wilt : A Life of Aleister Crowley by Lawrence Sutin ISBN: 0312252439 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autobiography by Aleister Crowley, John Symonds, Kenneth Grant ISBN: 0140191895 Publisher: Arkana Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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