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

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 apparentExplains how Hall adopted the author as his "girl Friday" and personal weirdo screener, giving her access to the inner circles of occult Los AngelesRichly depicts the characters who worked and gathered at Hall's Philosophical Research Society, including Hall's 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. Tamra and Ronnie were delighted to discover that the book's author, Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990), master teacher of Hermetic mysteries and collector of all Poring over the tome, they were awakened to the esoteric and occult teachings of the world.