I foolishly gave my copy to a friend many years ago, never dreaming that it would end up as one of the most sought after (and expensive) paperbacks in existence. I could never bring myself to pay the price to pick it up again, but at $26, sure. The contents run the gamut from cutting edge to over the top, but certainly worth the new edition price. It’s probably worth it just for the instructions on television divination. A lot of the material on tantric kalas is, um, sort of funky, but I can’t say I have enough expertise to really claim that it’s not correct.
I read the VGW years ago through Interlibrary loan based on the hype around it.
It doesn’t deserve the hype.
Its like a really long zine made by Kenneth Grant while the writing less sensible, the metaphysics more insane and more musings depraved, in a bad way.
An amusing browse if you can read it for free. I would not recommended paying for it.
4 responses so far ↓
1 fenris23 // Dec 21, 2006 at 1:06 pm
I’m not trusting that book enough to preorder… but as soon as it is actually available it’s mine. :)
2 Bill Whitcomb // Dec 21, 2006 at 7:47 pm
I foolishly gave my copy to a friend many years ago, never dreaming that it would end up as one of the most sought after (and expensive) paperbacks in existence. I could never bring myself to pay the price to pick it up again, but at $26, sure. The contents run the gamut from cutting edge to over the top, but certainly worth the new edition price. It’s probably worth it just for the instructions on television divination. A lot of the material on tantric kalas is, um, sort of funky, but I can’t say I have enough expertise to really claim that it’s not correct.
3 Vincent // Dec 22, 2006 at 2:38 pm
I read the VGW years ago through Interlibrary loan based on the hype around it.
It doesn’t deserve the hype.
Its like a really long zine made by Kenneth Grant while the writing less sensible, the metaphysics more insane and more musings depraved, in a bad way.
An amusing browse if you can read it for free. I would not recommended paying for it.
4 screwwalmart // Dec 28, 2006 at 8:04 pm
Screw Wal-mart! They put some of my friends out of business. Order it through your local independent bookseller instead!
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