Reddit reviews Low Magick: It's All In Your Head ... You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is

Yes. My introduction to him was Low Magick: It's All In Your Head ... You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is, which is more of a Cosmic Trigger-style autobiographical type piece, yet sort-of an initiation manual in disguise. That or My Life With The Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician, which is his actual autobiography, are great jumping-off points for the newly interested.

Watzlawick doesn't talk about reframing, I've found much more inspiration on that topic in your everyday chaos-magickal blogpost, in the works of Pete Carroll, Phil Hine, or even in Crowley's work, where he talks about assuming godforms and being a god. Watzlawick as the founder of radical constructivism was more the philosopher to me who showed me that every paradigm, however objective it claims to be, is in itself subjective. I've read "Wie wirklich ist die Wirklichkeit" and "Die erfundene Wirklichkeit", the latter being a collection of essays on radical constructivism by several authors. His most-known work, "Anleitung zum Unglücklichsein" stands in my bookshelf, but I haven't found the time to read it yet.

I don't know if any of his works are available in other languages, though.

Edit: I haven't read it, but the well-known occultist and thelemite Lon Milo Duquette has a book whose title alone sounds like it could be about said topic, reframing, mindsets and magickal thinking. It's called It's all in your head ... You just have no idea how big your head is. :D

Another Edit: Of course Watzlawick was translated to english. How real is real, The invented reality. That's what you get when you link to wikipedia articles without reading them. ;)

That's cool. I don't know much about that other than the basics of what it is. But I do frequent the r/occult r/magick and r/psychonaut and r/C_S_T so I'd say I've drifted pretty far out there.

This was one of the most thought provoking and mind expanding books I've read. he really shifted my ability to conceive and perceive the things that most people call spirits and energies in a new paradigm.

The sidebar is a good place to start. Also Liber ABA.

As for demons, you want to establish a solid, long term practice and develop serious proficiency before getting into evocation. I'm talking years and years of hard, diligent work.

If you want to learn about demons from a source who is more accessible to the average reader than most old grimoires are, you could check out Duquette's Low Magick.

In no particular order, I recommend you read

• Homemade Magick: The Musings & Mischief of a Do-It-Yourself Magus
  
  
• Low Magick: It's All In Your Head ... You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is
  
  
• Modern Magick: Twelve Lessons in the High Magickal Arts
  
  Those should be enough to get you started.