On Getting a Bullshit Meter, Or, If I Remember Lemuria, Will You Pay Me $100 a Year?

In 2016 Erica M Cornelius had risen up to the grade of Adeptus Minor 5=6 in Aleister Crowley's A.'.A.'. Her first goal was to learn that the light of her inner Star doesn't always shine unhampered. As an Outer Adept, her goal was to lift these phantoms she has created which control her 'personality' or ego. Like a scientist she began researching what was real and not, vanquishing every aspect of false Knowledge that has hindered or would hinder her growth. Being in the A.'.A.'. is like sitting on a psychiatrist's couch. It's not all about doing rituals or taking on some fancy-sounding title as if that alone was proof of an accomplishment. It's realizing that you've chosen an incarnation in order to gain a certain experience. We call this experience our True Will. This book details one woman's journey and magickal struggle to fulfill the Adeptus Minor's first obligation, which is learning how to use a Bullshit Meter. On Getting a Bullshit Meter is as much an example of a critical piece of one Adept's Adeptus Minor (Outer) work as it is a description of it. As a result it is sometimes very raw. Cornelius had to work through intense shame and anger at having allowed herself to be swindled by a Carlos-Castaneda-copy, "Toltec" cult leader with whom she had been involved before she joined the A.'.A.'. Any cult leader spends almost his entire life clashing with others, intentionally making them feel as though they cannot live without him, intentionally making them planets around his star instead of allowing them to be the stars they were meant to be. Indirectly his entire goal is to foster 'Restriction' in his students, which is the greatest sin of Thelema, the spiritual philosophy of which Crowley is the prophet. The process of getting a Bullshit Meter opens up this former 'black box' of beliefs and attitudes, exposing the ego as a construct and giving the Adept an opportunity to correct those parts built on a faulty foundation. Numbered, signed, limited to 200 copies.