American occult author and practitioner of ceremonial magic
Donald Michael Kraig (March 28, 1951 – March 17, 2014) was an American occult author and practitioner of ceremonial magic. Kraig published six books, including his 1988 introduction to ceremonial magic, Modern Magick. He was also an editor for Fate Magazine and for his main publisher Llewellyn Worldwide.
After a decade of personal study and practice of the occult, he taught courses in Southern California and at Neo-Pagan festivals and events on topics including Kabbalah, Tarot, Magick, the Lovecraft Mythos,[2] Psychic Development and Tantra, and was an initiated Tantric[3] who ran a lodge of AMOOKOS, an east-west tantric occult group.[4]
Kraig was a member of several[vague] spiritual and magical groups. He was a professional musician, as an organist, synthesist, keyboard player, theremin player, and singer.[1] He taught computer skills at the University of Southern California, and was a member of Hollywood's magician club The Magic Castle.[1] He was awarded the honor of Certified Tarot Grand Master by the Associated Readers of Tarot.[1] He was an editor of Fate Magazine.[3] Kraig signed to Llewellyn Publications (now Llewellyn Worldwide), publisher or co-publisher of his main books, articles, and tapes; he was editor for The Llewellyn Journal in 2001 and for Llewellyn's New Worlds in 2003.
He received training and certification as a clinical hypnotherapist by the American Board of Hypnotherapy (ABH), the National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH), and the Association for Integrative Psychology (AIP). He was also certified as a hypnosis instructor by the ABH and as a master practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) by the AIP.[3]
1988 Modern Magick: Eleven Lessons in the High Magickal Arts. Llewellyn Publications. ISBN0-87542-324-8 (2nd edition: 2002) (republished in 2010 re-subtitled: 12 Lessons in the High Magickal Arts.)
2006 The Encyclopedia of Magic and Alchemy by Rosemary Ellen Guiley, foreword by Donald Michael Kraig, Checkmark Books ISBN0-8160-6048-7, ISBN978-0-8160-6048-1
^ abcd[Encyclopedia of Wicca and Witchcraft by Raven Grimassi Pg. 242, Llewellyn Publications (September 8, 2000) ISBN1567182577, ISBN978-1567182576]
^Necronomicon Files: The Truth Behind Lovecraft's Legend by Daniel Harms and John Wisdom Gonce, III, (July 1, 2003) Red Wheel / Weiser ISBN1578632692,ISBN978-1578632695
