- Paperback: 100 pages
- Publisher: Aeon Books Ltd (28 Feb 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1904658091
- ISBN-13: 978-1904658092
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 11.3 x 1.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 408,314 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In his own inimitable style Ramsey Dukes takes us through the advantages and dangers of hobnobbing with Demons. However for him Demons are very much our own creations; lifes problems and challenges personified and given form. We can either be their slaves or strike bargains and get back into the driving seat. With his characteristic wit and wisdom, Uncle Ramsey takes us on a rollercoaster ride through our own subconscious in a sustained effort for us to accept and negotiate with lifes challenges.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I picked up this book eagerly anticipating that feeling of desperate, inevitable faliure that I have come to look forward to from a book claiming to help with life's problems. But what did I find? A book filled with wicked humour, exciting ideas and most shockingly of all, originality. As if that wasn't enough, after finishing the The Little Book of Demons, I actually felt like embracing and exploring life to the full.
Where was the patronising, yet impossibly strict set of rules to obey in order to succeed in life? Nowhere I tell you!
This book should carry a public health warning.
Where was the patronising, yet impossibly strict set of rules to obey in order to succeed in life? Nowhere I tell you!
This book should carry a public health warning.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Down to earth
18 Feb 2008
Format:Paperback
This book opens with an intriguing premise: Our brain is not large and powerful because we are `toolmaking creatures', but because we have such incredibly complex social relationships. So, when we interact with `life's problems' as thinking, feeling characters with a personality, we are using more of our brainpower.
The demons that Ramsey Dukes writes about do not necessarily manifest as green goblins and tentacled ghouls; he writes about personal habits, attitudes, and behaviours that motivate us, such as addiction, self-sabotage, racism, bully/victim relationships, etc.
Dukes presents a very innovative way of thinking about our everyday events, to approach the deeper roots underlying our motives and behaviours. Many practical suggestions are artfully laced throughout the book, and reading between the lines shows that Dukes ideas represent longstanding magical practices of demonic evocation (e.g. goetia) in an immediate and rather ordinary and natural approach. Gives me a new appreciation for medieval magical practices, suggests a possibility that they were a type of psychological therapy for healing the psyche by externalizing internal processes.
Dukes writing style is relaxed and sophisticated. He harnesses complex and obtuse ideas into a straightforward presentation, and is enjoyable to read. I give it 4 stars because the examples became somewhat repetitive near the end, and the fault for me was that Dukes is so successful in presenting `demon work' in an everyday, down to earth way, that the book in turn feels mundane. Overall it was interesting and enjoyable, and recommended.
The demons that Ramsey Dukes writes about do not necessarily manifest as green goblins and tentacled ghouls; he writes about personal habits, attitudes, and behaviours that motivate us, such as addiction, self-sabotage, racism, bully/victim relationships, etc.
Dukes presents a very innovative way of thinking about our everyday events, to approach the deeper roots underlying our motives and behaviours. Many practical suggestions are artfully laced throughout the book, and reading between the lines shows that Dukes ideas represent longstanding magical practices of demonic evocation (e.g. goetia) in an immediate and rather ordinary and natural approach. Gives me a new appreciation for medieval magical practices, suggests a possibility that they were a type of psychological therapy for healing the psyche by externalizing internal processes.
Dukes writing style is relaxed and sophisticated. He harnesses complex and obtuse ideas into a straightforward presentation, and is enjoyable to read. I give it 4 stars because the examples became somewhat repetitive near the end, and the fault for me was that Dukes is so successful in presenting `demon work' in an everyday, down to earth way, that the book in turn feels mundane. Overall it was interesting and enjoyable, and recommended.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Little Demons in a Big World
5 Aug 2009
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This...
dear sorcerers,
... is one of our favorite books by Ramsey Dukes. It gives true insight into the world and how to deal with it and the many little demons that inhabit (and we do mean habit) it. A great, amusing and original approach to evocational magic.
kyela,
the silver elves
dear sorcerers,
... is one of our favorite books by Ramsey Dukes. It gives true insight into the world and how to deal with it and the many little demons that inhabit (and we do mean habit) it. A great, amusing and original approach to evocational magic.
kyela,
the silver elves
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
It's about time
21 Aug 2009
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
As the title says, it's about time that some truly modern magic appeared in print. Much of the work of effective modern psychology (such as NLP) is centered around a paradigm of evoking the problematic self and changing one's relationship to it, using simple narrative and explanation, something that can be done in minutes rather than years (much of the time). Well, URLBOD is not too different from the work of people like Erickson, Bandler and others, and a lot more fun, especially for those who don't need to have NLP demystified, and would enjoy working a little magic.
This wonderful self-help book is written on the premise that humans have always deified or demonized problems. URLBOD sees the old grimoires, the books of the 'servants of god vs. minions of the devil' style ceremonial magic from the standpoint of what we are learning about the way the mind works, and finds real magic, which is what Bandler and company have been calling effective psychology for some time.
I'm not the only one who sees this. In recent correspondence, the author has told me of therapists using these methods with considerable success. URLBOD makes no attempt at specious pseudoscience, and is certainly not an attempt to reframe magic in the language of psychology, as astrologers often do. It's approached as a useful magical technique, plain and simple, that can be used by executive and hedge-witch alike.
Too bad there are only five stars.
This wonderful self-help book is written on the premise that humans have always deified or demonized problems. URLBOD sees the old grimoires, the books of the 'servants of god vs. minions of the devil' style ceremonial magic from the standpoint of what we are learning about the way the mind works, and finds real magic, which is what Bandler and company have been calling effective psychology for some time.
I'm not the only one who sees this. In recent correspondence, the author has told me of therapists using these methods with considerable success. URLBOD makes no attempt at specious pseudoscience, and is certainly not an attempt to reframe magic in the language of psychology, as astrologers often do. It's approached as a useful magical technique, plain and simple, that can be used by executive and hedge-witch alike.
Too bad there are only five stars.
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