I know probably all of ya have heard of Michael Ford. I'm thinking about buying a couple of his books. Then I read an article of his on chaostatic.com. Now I am confused. Hopefully someone here can set me straight.

It seems to me the guy can't make up his mind on whether or not the individual is the deity, the deity is within the practitioner or the deity is something outside the practitioner. From what I've read regarding his books, the deity is not the practitioner, because of the religious rites use in his books to invoke/envoke them.

The in the article he comes off as deity aspects are something within the practitioner. If this is so, why would he or any other person need/desire a rite to get in touch with these inner deities?

Finally, does anyone have any of his books? Are they any good? How about the rites/exercises in them? What were your experiences using them?