Book Of Ordinary Oracles: Use Pocket Change, Popsicle Sticks, a TV Remote, this Book, and More to Predict the Future and Answer Your Questions [Paperback]

Lon Milo DuQuette (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2005

Consulting oracles used to be difficult and dangerous. You had to make a pilgrimage plagued with hardship, trudging through the desert to a holy place or person. Or kill a calf to read its liver or a bird to read its entrails. Or study for years to read ink dropped in water. Who has the time? Traditional methods just aren't convenient today. What's a divine wonderer to do? Funny you should ask.

The Book of Ordinary Oracles, Lon Milo DuQuette shows us how to use items lying around the house--from pocket change to chopsticks--to divine answer to everyday questions. He also tells us how to ask the right question and interpret the answer. The tools he provides will make consulting oracles as easy as reaching into your pocket or cupboard. Can one use channel surfing as an oracle? You bet! DuQuette's anecdotes illustrate various divination techniques. Laugh your way to wisdom while learning new ways to look at the I Ching and how to read tarot cards for yourself.

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About the Author

Lon Milo DuQuette is the best-selling author of humorous takes on traditionally serious subjects such as The Chicken Qabala of Rabbi Lamen Ben Clifford and his autobiographical My Life with the Spirits. He has studied the occult for more than 30 years and is in great demand as a lecturer across the US and England.

Product Details

• Paperback: 202 pages
• Publisher: Weiser Books (March 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578633168
• ISBN-13: 978-1578633166
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #940,349 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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LON MILO DUQUETTE

Author of 15 critically acclaimed books (translated in 11 languages) on Magick and the Occult, Lon Milo DuQuette is one of the most respected and entertaining writers and lecturers in the field of the Western Mystery Traditions.

Since 1975 he as been a national and international governing officer of Ordo Templi Orientis, one of the most influential magical societies of the 20th Century. He is currently the Order's United States Deputy Grand Master. He is an internationally recognized authority on tarot and western ceremonial magick. Although he takes these subjects very seriously, he tries not to take himself too seriously. This rare combination of scholarship and humor has earned him in the last 20 years a unique and respected position in American spiritual and esoteric literature.

DuQuette appears occasionally on television and radio as a guest expert on subjects involving the occult. He is a contributor to the Magical Egypt DVD series' and a host on the new series, The Great Work.

He is a faculty member of the Omega Institute in Reinbeck New York, and Robert Anton Wilson's Maybe Logic Academy.

He is also a professional musician/singer/songwriter.

He lives in Costa Mesa, California with his wife of 43 years, Constance.

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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No Ordinary Oracle Book!, February 24, 2005

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Janet Berres "Author of 'Tarot Kit For Beginners" (Morton Grove, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Book Of Ordinary Oracles: Use Pocket Change, Popsicle Sticks, a TV Remote, this Book, and More to Predict the Future and Answer Your Questions (Paperback)

Lon Milo DuQuette's Book of Ordinary Oracles is no ordinary book on oracles! It is engaging, humorous, and a spellbinding book -- one that cuts through the routine and often superficial information frequently given in books published on this subject. Lon DuQuette gets to the heart of what divination by an oracle is and why it works. He then offers the reader his many unique ways of consulting the oracles, and, after consulting them, he most importantly reveals exactly how to use that information to answer our most personal questions. Lon's gifts to his readers are a keen sense of humor, years of experience, and his ability to make complicated and difficult information easy to understand. Lon Milo DuQuette takes the occult, hidden world of "telling fortunes" , and makes it accessible to all through ordinary, every day items. I highly recommend this book to all future soothsayers and other questing people. It will certainly occupy a prominent place among my many books on divination.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars High Wisdom And Livingroom Magic, February 22, 2005

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Arthur E. Rosengarten "Jungian Psychologist a... (Encinitas, California) - See all my reviews
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The Book of Ordinary Oracles presents masterful, original, and truly clever divination experiments which perfectly represent the true intent of oracles and so-called "fortune-telling" practices. As a practitioner and author myself in the divinatory arts, I recommend this enjoyable small book for its playful and astute delivery of large ideas. Once again, author Lon DuQuette applies his rare gift of humor and invention to a wealth of esoteric knowledge without ever diminishing its value.

Oracular practices, we learn, are built upon the lost art of questioning-one's motives, choices, expectations, etc. in matters of self-perceived consequence. "When you actually know the question" writes DuQuette, "the answer is everywhere, and you can see it in anything you observe." This book invites you to play alongside a master soothsayer, discover oracular tools in everyday objects, and learn the necessary perspectives that make divination immediately appealing and relevant to modern sensibility. Though augury has never been this much fun, despite itself the book leaves you primed with more psychic fuel than you ever bargained for.

18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Divination without tears., March 15, 2005

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Alan Salmi (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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Like all of Mr. DuQuette's books, this one gives important information on a serious subject without being solemn. His writing style is light and humorous and is a refreshing change from the boring, high minded writings on occultism that you usually see. If you are interested in a quick and dirty guide to divination, both in theory and practice, this is it. In fact, it can even ideas for making your own system. I particularly like the emphasis of getting the right question in the first place. Once you have a basic idea from this book, you can, of course go deeper into the I Ching (although his version is much more fun), tarot, fire gazing or sheep's livers (this last being too messy for me). Personal stories of working with the oracles described make the book a fun read and give you an idea of what really working with an oracle can be like, both the good and the bad. Not only should you read this book, you should use it.