Book Of Ordinary Oracles: Use Pocket Change, Popsicle Sticks, A TV Remote, This Book, And More To Predict THe Furure And Answer Your Questions

by Lon Milo DuQuette

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.

Genres: Occult, Divination, Nonfiction, Spirituality

202 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2005

About the author

Lon Milo DuQuette is an American singer-song writer, author, lecturer, and occultist, best known as an author who applies humor in the field of Western Hermeticism.

Born in Long Beach, California and raised in Columbus, Nebraska, he was an aspiring studio musician and recording artist in the 1970s, releasing two singles and an album, Charley D. and Milo, on the Epic Records label.

He married to his high school sweetheart, Constance Jean Duquette. They live in Costa Mesa, California and have one son, Jean-Paul.

Since 1975 he has been a National and International governing officer of Ordo Templi Orientis, a religious and fraternal organization founded in the early part of the 20th century. Since 1996 he has been the O.T.O.'s United States Deputy Grand Master and one of the most visible members of the Order. He is also an Archbishop of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, the ecclesiastical arm of O.T.O.

Reviews

[Eileanór Bláth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Adoro i libri di DuQuette, è sempre un piacere leggerli e avrei voluto che questo fosse più lungo e con molto più materiale da cui prendere spunto. In poche pagine riesce a dare tanti suggerimenti e nuovi metodi a cui non avrei mai pensato, quindi mi immagino con cosa se ne sarebbe potuto uscire se il libro fosse stato più corposo. Ma non me ne lamento. Gli spunti ci sono e ho già una mezza idea di come svilupparli in modo del tutto personale.

[Greyer Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really love this book!! The most useful thing this book does, other tha be wildly amusing, is remind you that all you need to know is inside yourself. It offers several anecdoteal stories of sivination that surprisingly woks, though by the "rules" it shouldn't, and shows you how to perform many different types of divination. The book itself has spots on each page, so you can open it at random and it will function as an oracle. Amusing, informative, reassuring, useful, you really can't ask much more from a book!

[Chenley Cabaluna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ano kasi, ang haba ng pila sa counter ng NBS that time, kaya natapos ko siya basahin lol. Ang motibo lang naman ng libro na 'to eh mabuksan ang 3rd eye mo at maging Clairvoyant ka, or Clair-audience or whatever kung anong trip mo sa buhay. Basta daw lahat tayo may psychic power, latent nga lang yung sa iba at mas active daw yung sa iba. Basta ganun. Interesting naman siya. Natuwa ako dun sa panghuhula gamit ang remote control ng tv lol

[Claudia Loureiro · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Book of Ordinary Oracles presents masterful, original, interesting, funny and truly clever divination experiments which perfectly represent the true intent of oracles and so-called "fortune-telling" practices. This book is playful and astute and deliveries large ideas. The author applies arare gift of humor and invention to a wealth of esoteric knowledge without ever diminishing its value. Not only should you read this book, you should use it.

[Oliver Ho · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun and light-hearted, with interesting ideas about what it could mean poetically/philosophically to consult an oracle.