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Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: My Seven Years in Occult Los Angeles with Manly Palmer Hall

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By (author): Tamra Lucid

An intimate, funny, yet tragic portrait of extraordinary esoteric scholar Manly P. Hall and the occult scene of 1980s Los Angeles

Details how the author and her boyfriend developed a close friendship with Manly Hall and how Hall at first mistook her boyfriend as his heir apparent

Explains how Hall adopted the author as his girl Friday and personal weirdo screener, giving her access to the inner circles of occult Los Angeles

Richly depicts the characters who worked and gathered at Halls Philosophical Research Society, including Halls wife, the famed Mad Marie

In the early 1980s, underground musicians Tamra Lucid and her boyfriend Ronnie Pontiac discovered the book The Secret Teachings of All Ages at the Bodhi Tree bookstore in Los Angeles. Poring over the tome, they were awakened to the esoteric and occult teachings of the world. Tamra and Ronnie were delighted to discover that the books author, Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990), master teacher of Hermetic mysteries and collector of all things mystical, lived in LA and gave lectures every Sunday at his mystery school, the Philosophical Research Society (PRS). After their first tantalizing Sunday lecture, Tamra and Ronnie soon started volunteering at the PRS, beginning a seven-year friendship with Manly P. Hall, who eventually officiated their wedding in his backyard.

In this touching, hilarious, and ultimately tragic autobiographical account, Tamra shares an intimate portrait of Hall and the occult world of New Age Los Angeles, including encounters with astrologers, scholars, artists, spiritual seekers, and celebrities such as Jean Houston and Marianne Williamson. Tamra vividly describes how she used her time at the PRS to learn everything she could not only about metaphysics but also about the people who practice it. But when Tamra begs Hall to banish a certain man from the PRS--the same man who inherited Halls estate and whom his wife Marie later alleged was Halls murderer--Tamra and Ronnie are the ones banished.

Tamras noir chronicle of an improbable friendship between a twenty-something punk and an eighty-year-old metaphysical scholar reveals Hall not only as an inspiring esoteric thinker but also as a genuinely kind human being who simply wanted to share his quest for inner meaning and rare wisdom with the world. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 306g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Feb 2022
  • Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781644113752

About Tamra Lucid

Tamra Lucid is a founding member of the experimental rock band Lucid Nation. She was a writer and editor for Newtopia Magazine and the principal interviewer for the original Reality Sandwich. She has produced documentary films including Exile Nation: The Plastic People End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock and the award-winning Viva Cuba Libre: Rap Is War. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband Ronnie Pontiac.

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