Reddit reviews My Life With The Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician

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.

Proceed with caution. DuQuette relates a case of an imaginary friend gone horribly, horribly bad in his autobiographical book, "My Life With the Spirits" (put it this way -- the story ends with an exorcism).

I'm not sure what to think about some of these replies.

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This book by Lon Milo Duquette has, by far, the most honest and insightful stories of evocation I've found. It's written by someone with a perfect combination of magickal experience and writing experience.

He discusses the physical appearances and behaviors of demons he has personally evoked using proper ceremony from the Lesser Keys of Solomon, but most importantly, he describes the bizarre ramifications of those ceremonies. You are left to come to your own conclusions about the risks and rewards of opening a dialogue with demons. His stories are a total trip.

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As for my own experiences:

I've been studying and to a lesser extent practicing magick for 27 years, and I still do not feel comfortable attempting to opening up this box because it is not for the curious amateur. It is playing with powerful forces that are known for being very difficult to control.

I believe I have had intense interactions with entities, mainly in my teen years, but I don't have any way of connecting those experiences to a particular demon or other spirit.

It sounds like some of the others that have responded have also. Were they "demons"? Well, I think it's helpful for communication to agree on definitions, otherwise there isn't an actual conversation happening:

I would define demons the same as the Goetia defines them. That is my reference point. Others might think of Djinn, or connect them to Satan, or even the demonic pantheons of indigenous shamanic religions throughout Asia upon which Buddhism has been overlaid. Or comic books and horror movies.

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My advice to any one on this forum that is having accidental interactions with spirits is to remember to BANISH AFTER EVERY RITUAL. If you have ever read an actual book on magick, you know it emphasizes banishing rituals. How many people end up slightly haunted/unhinged/off-balanced FOR YEARS because they neglected to properly perform banishing component of a ritual?

Banish thoroughly.