The Stars Are Definitely
Right!
Scott R Jones' When the
Stars Are Right: Towards an Authentic R'lyehian
Spirituality is quite literally the most fascinating and thought
provoking book I have read in years. This is not a book for the
faux-Cultist looking to summon Yog-Sothoth; this is a book for the
real 'cultist' looking to explore and even embrace the primal
energies—ideas—forces—Truths—that lie beneath the
fictional entity. Yog-Sothoth, Nyarlathotep, Cthulhu—all easily
function as fictional names for very real concepts: Chaos, The
Unknown, the ultimate insignificance of humanity, even the
non-existence of what we think of as The Self.... The average person,
when confronted with the question: Is Cthulhu real?, would
say, 'Of course not!' Well...this tome takes one on a provocative
journey into the Abyss, and shows how—yes—Big C is
real....
Above all, this very serious
and, in my estimation, extremely successful attempt at organizing
something that may be called a 'R'lyehian' spirituality is a book for
the thinking man (or woman!). Whether one has a thorough
understanding, or any at all, of Lovecraft's fiction or not, all are
sure to be challenged, mentally stretched, even—entertained!
When one gets down to it,
Scott Jones has in this book brilliantly done what it is man's nature
to do: taken primal concepts, given them names (borrowed from
Lovecraft, though really it's irrelevant WHERE the names come from,
the underlying Concepts being the core of the matter), and arranged
them into a System that helps us think about the universe—just one
more Lens through which to view the vast and largely unknowable
cosmos.
And I, for one, found it
Really. Damn. Interesting.
Come one, come all, the
curious, the intrigued, the philosophers—hell, even the plain ol'
Lovecraft devotees! Come! And learn what it is to experience The
Black Gnosis....
Your life will change,
people—mine did.
IA!
