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  Diary of a Drug Fiend (thing)
First published in 1922, "Diary of a Drug Fiend" was Aleister Crowley's first book.
The book is almost a Thelemic boy-scout manual, due to its deep philosophical and psychological dives into Crowley's unique--very possibly genius--views on drugs, society, and the powers of the human mind.
On the other side, it is a formidable work of early twentieth-century culture, and I wouldn't recommend that any fan of logic, magick, literature, or myth pass this one up.
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 drugnerd | consciousness inhibitor » Fiend
Diary Of A Drug Fiend : The Beast 666
Diary of a Drug Fiend was Aleister Croley’s first published novel.
Today, while we are more familiar with drugs because of their widespread use in our culture, Diary of a Drug Fiend remains one of the most intense, detailed and accurate accounts of drug addiction and the drug experience.
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 Thelema Lodge Calendar Cross Index
Drug Panic, The, by a London Physician [Aleister Crowley]
DIARY Crowley's diary and notes 25th March 1900 to 18th April 1900
DIARY Crowley's Royal Court Diary covering May 1st through 15th, 1936 e.v.
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 Diary   (Site not responding. Last check: )
As the title implies, the diary is central to the cure of two drug addicts.
Remember, what you write in your diary is merely words, which are earthed out onto the mundane plane in order to follow the magickal principles of birth, life and death.
This same unpublished OTO paper acknowledges that to "understand why this Diary is important, think of it as an intricate chart which has the capability of guiding an Initiate in any direction, or path which he chooses.
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 Diary of a Drug Fiend - Satanic Community : Satanism   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Diary of a Drug Fiend - Satanic Community : Satanism
I was looking thru the listing of books here on this website and that one in particular caught my eye as the issue of drug abuse is a personal one for me. I have a dear friend that is addicted to crystal meth.
I do think the whole theme of the book requires the reader to have a degree of knowledge about drug abuse...otherwise they would be reading round in cicles at points and its easy to get lost in it all.
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 books about: drug (hospitalization hallucinogenic vita-nutrient)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gray is good at analysing the forces behind the enactment of drug laws-political motivations, greed, and religious...
This book is not only for those with drug or alcohol addictions but it is for those of us who suffer addictions of all kinds, it is for those of us who don't believe in ourselves, for those who have experienced hurt and also...
I had used drugs when I was younger, and they did affect me in many ways.
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 Religion explorer: Diary of a Drug Fiend
I originally purchased this book 13 years ago when i was travelling to meet my brother for the first time in my life.
Most potential readers of this book who use drugs are not intelligient enough to read this, so it found its place amongst occultists.
Crowley was a drug user and an icon amongst other users.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Aleister Crowley - Diary of a Drug Fiend at Epinions.com
It is the tale of a romance which flowers and fades under the ominous cloud of drug addiction.
The descriptions of their every delight is so richly detailed, and of such lyrical depth, it effortlessly envelops, leaving the reader with a keen sense of nostalgia if not envy.
The drugs which once seemed a source of never ending pleasure reveal themselves as the voracious and unrelenting tormenters that they truly are.
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 Amazon.com: Diary of a Drug Fiend: Books: Aleister Crowley   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The craving for the drug, and how it is the only thing the user thinks about when he or she does not have the drug for a period of time is covered thoroughly.
Diary Of A Drug Fiend is successful because it is very easy to understand.
Aleister Crowley's Diary of a Drug Fiend is an excellent account of two cocaine addicts progression from innocence into addiction's deepest hells, and salvation through the will.
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 Polikua » Remind Me Never To Do Heroin   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The book is amazingly insightful, both for its account of the psychology of drug abuse, from the soaring immortality to the gnawing squalor, and its account of magick and in particular, Crowley’s system of True Will.
Diary of a Drug Fiend is an entertaining book, although Crowley’s depiction of himself in the book is fanciful, It implied Crowley had mastered and conquered hard drugs, being able to take them or leave them as he chose.
I agree with Dr. Andrew Weil who says plant drugs in a natural, non synthesized form, not artificially strengthened, are much preferable to the white powder versions: Opium or coca leaves being much preferable to heroin or cocaine.
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Aleister Crowley "Diary of a Drug Fiend" Fine Scarce HC
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 The Lounge > the helicopter in diary of drug fiend   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Nov 18 2004, 06:58 PM The culmination of the protagonist experiences in Crowley's "Diary of a Drug Fiend" finds him realizing that his "great work" is to develop the first working helicopter.
This fires his soul as it were and allows him to work with the flow of the universe, and live in a state of perpetual exaltation.
In "Diary of a Drug Fiend," Crowley makes it sound like the creation of the helicopter is the end all be all of this guy's existence.
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 Erowid Heroin Vault
Real Drug Crisis Is Those Over 30 - LA Times, Feb 23, 1997
Diary of a Drug Fiend, by Aleister Crowley
Drugs are Bad : The Drug War is Worse - NY Magazine, Feb 5 1996
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 Diary of a Drug Fiend - The Comatorium Community   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Diary of a Drug Fiend - The Comatorium Community
This book was fucking amazing the way he describes drugs and their effects and the addiction.
yes it is the same alister crowley, im not into him but i have read this book and the description and feeling he gets out into it (especially for people who have experienced drugs) is incredible and accurate.
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 DIARY OF A DRUG FIEND Crowley Library -- Library of the Masters   (Site not responding. Last check: )
DIARY OF A DRUG FIEND Crowley Library -- Library of the Masters
DIARY OF A DRUG FIEND was Aleister Crowley's first published novel.
To the reader of 1922 it presented a shocking look at a little known phenomenon.
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 Famous Drug Users
In much of human history, drugs have been so much the norm as to not warrent mention regarding this or that personage.
To many of these people, their drug use has been an integral part of their work.
I have found no indication of drug use on the part of William Blake, Baruch Spinoza, or Immanuel Swedenborg, but Blake, Spinoza and Swedenborg were among those of history's great geniuses who found other ways of altering their state of consciousness, and used that alteration to view reality from different perspectives.
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 Erowid Library/Bookstore : Book Title Index
Kava-Kava: Famous Drug Plant of the South Sea Islands
On the Trail of the Ancient Opium Poppy
Psychedelics: The Uses and Implications of Hallucinogenic Drugs
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 The Confessions of Aleister Crowley
I wanted to be within easy reach of London for the time being, and accordingly wired her to join me in Paris, which she did on January 11th, the first anniversary of our liaison.
With her was her two-year-old son who appears in The Diary of a Drug Fiend as Dionysus.
She had plumbed the bottmless pit of damnation and ravaged the heights of heaven with rage and rapture.
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 Sieveking
He further adds, "I tried to read the book, but chiefly, owing to the writing, I became so bored that I couldn't go on.
As for myself, I found it all rather silly."  Part of the problem why he may not appreciate the book is revealed when he admits, "But then I had never taken cocaine or any drug of that kind, and had no conception of the states of mind they are able to induce.
It seemed to me that one would have to be in a similiar state to know what it was all about, in which case, presumably, one would be too occupied with one's own sensations to want to read a description of them.
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 : methology | may 08, 2001 :   (Site not responding. Last check: )
may 8 Finally finished Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley.
I started it at the beginning of April, in keeping with my book a month resolution, but the book put me in such a bad mood that reading was slow and I kept debating whether to stick with it.
I don't know what that will be, though, so it looks like a trip to the bookstore is in order.
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 The Occult - Rare Books Exhibition
It was also the year in which he joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a group given to the practice of ceremonial magic whose membership include the poet W.B. Yeats and a number of other literary, thespian, and artistic luminaries of the time.
Sensational as its title might be, the novel The Diary of a Drug Fiend is not only quite innocuous but even rather moralistic in its approach to the subject of drugs.
She became an active proponent of 'sex-magic,' and also made regular use of a variety of drugs (chiefly 'speed') in her ceremonies.
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 No new Diary of a Drug Fiend :: lashtal.com :: Thelemic News and Culture
No new Diary of a Drug Fiend :: lashtal.com :: Thelemic News and Culture
We are sorry to report that the release of the following item has been cancelled: Aleister Crowley, Hymenaeus Beta XI (Introduction) "Diary of a Drug Fiend"
Re: No new Diary of a Drug Fiend
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 Find in a Library: The diary of a drug fiend.
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 Literature Network Forums - Aleister Crowley
Is Diary of a Drug Fiend similar to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?
Again, this seems only according to my opinion, but Diary of a Drug Fiend reminded me so much more of Crowley's increasingly spiritual perception - in a way, gaining insight and introspection through altered states (the same way thinkers like Dr. Timothy Leary, Dr. John Lilly, Robert Anton Wilson, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg did).
Thompson also wrote much in his novel regarding introspection and self-realization, but, to me, in a less spiritual more intellectual pursuit manner (not to say that spirituality does not have connection with intellect).
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 Overthrow.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It is really very bad for the mind to be constantly preoccupied with the question of the drug.
It is better to take a small dose to rid myself of the obsession.
If I were to take some, my mind would clear up immediately, and I should be able to think out good plans for stopping it.
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 Literature Network Forums - View Single Post - Aleister Crowley
As I mentioned in another thread, I just finished Aleister Crowley's Diary of a Drug Fiend, and absolutely loved it, to simply say the least.
I have read only little of Crowley's other works, but the following quotes come only from Diary of a Drug Fiend, which I personally collected.
Please, feel free to post any other Crowley quotes, whether it comes from this novel or not.
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 Antikvariat 1 : Diary of a drug fiend / by Aleister Crowley. York Beach, Me. : S. Weiser, 1970. - ISBN 0877281467
Antikvariat 1 : Diary of a drug fiend / by Aleister Crowley.
Titel / Title Diary of a drug fiend / by Aleister Crowley
Klassifikation / SAB Classification He Ämnesord / Subject heading headings Drug addicts
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