What do you think of this fellow?
What do you think of this fellow?
Julian Wright
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Leo Wright
meme
Christian Davis
Rebel, polymath, libertine, philosopher, mountaineer, chess player, poet and a monstrous narcissist.
Still, it's irrelevant to dwell on his personal qualities when he was such a good writer. As we know, all the best writers were bastards, and he was hardly the worst.
Jordan Richardson
>tfw to intellgent too be limited by dimenisons
Jack Robinson
I dont like thinking lad
Leo Sanchez
I tried to get into Occultism as a way of life and ritualistic practice as way of realizing ideals in the material world but all it did was make me feel like a dork with hypersensitive apophenia.
Don't fall for the Occultism meme.
Angel Lopez
You can get a lot out of Crowley without believing in magic. I know I have.
Colton Adams
Robert Anton Wilson's interpretations of Crowley's teachings are better than Crowley's works themselves. Dude was obsessed with obfuscation.
Logan Watson
To be fair, Wilson (and Leary) knew Crowley better than he knew himself. They were familiar with the concept of the "reality tunnel," and could see past the convictions that limited Crowley.
Wilson was also the supreme synthesist (much better than Crowley) who excelled at forming a holistic view.
("Holistic" is a word that makes me cringe, but it's appropriate here, unfortunately.)
Samuel Walker
Yes, I would agree with all that. It's a good way of putting your finger on what makes Wilson so enjoyable to read.
However I found that having Wilson be my introduction to all things occult made it rather hard to read Crowley after the fact. It just felt convoluted for the sake of >muh secrets and not at all practical unless you were willing to peel back his layers of symbology and read his obfuscated prose. Wilson simply told you the secrets (although he didn't always tell you he was doing that).
The only book of Crowley's where I really think he "got it" in terms of passing on practical knowledge (which I consider the whole point of the occult) was Diary of a Drug Fiend, and even that is only useful to someone who has experienced addiction .