TERMS AND CONDITIONS
(1) Enrollment is limited to students who do not use anonymous
remailers or pseudonyms. You must use your REAL LEGAL NAME in the Correspondence Course. Each
class member is assigned a student ID # (for ease of tracking
homework) and the REAL LEGAL NAMES of all students are
known to all other students via a student contact web page.
I will not accept students who fail to give me a telephone number,
a valid street address, and an email address.
Any student found using a pseudonym or making any other attempted
falsification of identity will be expelled,
and the expulsion will be permanently known to all other students.
(2) Students must acknowledge my copyright ownership of the Hoodoo Rootwork
Correspondence Course text and must agree to not copy the material for free or for
sale in any medium, including paper, audio, or electronic methods of reproduction,
and not to give their Correspondence Course book to another person to read or copy.
Any student found distributing or copying the course material will be expelled,
and the expulsion will be permanently known to all other students.
(3) My best students are those who are familiar and comfortable with the
principles, methods, and tools of African American conjure, Appalachian
herb magic, Latin American folk magic, and/or European folk
magic. At the present time, this course is
only being offered to people who have been or are current
customers of the Lucky Mojo Curio Company and are listed as such
in the store's database. My reason for this is that after
teaching 1,350 students, i came to the realization that people
whose sole database entry was their order for the course book
almost never turned in their homework assignments or graduated
from the course -- whereas store customers who become students
were the most likely to turn in their homework and graduate.
(4) Because each course book is personally inscribed by me to the
student in his or her name and with his or her student ID number
affixed, the course book is not returnable for credit or refund. If,
for any reason, you are not prepared to turn in your homework and
graduate, please do not enroll in this course.
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Who can apply
I want to teach people who are stable, mature, patient, intelligent, and
qualified to learn. The only way i can decide who has what it takes to study
with me is to become familiar with them, understand where they're coming from,
see if they like our kind of spiritual goods, help them do some work on their
own, and then, if they still want to take the course, i will gladly accept them
as students, and i will be pretty sure that my teaching efforts will be directed
toward folks who will really benefit from the effort i put into the course, the
Yahoo group, and the grading of homework.
To be explicit, i do not take students who show no past history with my shop,
working with the hand-made oils, sachet powders, incense, washes, etc. of
conjure. The purchase of a few candles or a book or an amulet is simply not
evidence of enough interest in this type of work for me to take a person on as a
student.
If you work with our shop for a while and we get to know you, i will
certainly want to teach you, but the teacher-student relationship is personal,
not commercial, and is built on experience and a history of shared knowledge and
practice.
So, to make a long story short, let's see you order a bit of stuff from Lucky
Mojo -- so that i know that you are familiar with what i will be referring to in
the course when i write of oils, and powders, and washes -- and then let's have
a brief telephone conversation so that i can get to know you a bit, and you can
decide if the course is the right thing for you. After that, i will be happy to
take you on as a student.
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HOMEWORK
There are 8 homework assignments for the year.
Three of the homework assignments are written and five involve
collection and creation of items used in practical conjure
and rootwork, as taught in the lessons.
In order to graduate,
students who are not African American
must have contact with Black Americans. For all students, homework is only accepted
insofar as it conforms to African American cultural norms of conjure practice.
If you want to know exactly what the homework consists of,
so that you will be able to decide in advance whether
or not the assignments are something
you will be able to complete, i have posted both the assignments and a FAQ
about them online.
Read the
Hoodoo Rootwork Correspondence Course Homework Assignments
to get an idea of what i expect of my students.
Students who fail to turn in any homework within two years
after signing up for the Correspondence Course will be
considered non-matriculating students and will be able to
READ the Yahoo group postings but will not be able to post.
If they turn in their homework, their ability to post will
be restored and they will be able to graduate.
If you are
not prepared to turn in your homework and graduate, please do not enroll in
the course.
If you are physically disabled, you may require
assistance completing the homework. We will try to see that this arranged,
insofar as possible.
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CURRICULUM
Because i do not want to surprise students by laying unexpected
or upsetting material on them, i have made the entire curriculum public.
Read the
Hoodoo Rootwork Correspondence Course Curriculum
to get an idea of what is included in the lessons.
TEACHING METHOD
This course is a presentation of African American magical techniques.
In teaching the practical aspects of spellcraft to students,
i employ a method called "cultural immersion" as a form of
outreach to my non-Black students. The depth of immersion
in Black American culture is similar to the level of depth one might find in
a high school or junior college course on "African American culture" or
"Black History studies," except that the focus is primarily on folk magic rather
than politics or social history.
Read about
Cultural Immersion as a teaching
method in the Hoodoo Rootwork Correspondence Course
to get an idea of how i teach and what i expect my students will learn.
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PRIVATE YAHOO GROUP FOR STUDENTS AND GRADUATES
Everyone who enrolls in the class
receives an invitation to join the special, private Yahoo
group where i reply to questions from students,
and where Correspondence Course members can meet one
another. You are not obliged to join the Yahoo group,
but you will get more from the lessons if you do, for it
is your opportunity to ask questions and receive
interactive communications from me.
The Yahoo group is ongoing and
permanent, and students may remain as members as long
as they wish after completing the Correspondence Course.
Applications to join the Yahoo group hrcourse by those
who are not enrolled in the Correspondence Course, or who are enrolled
but do not apply for group membership with their full
real name and student ID# are automatically
rejected.
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CERTIFICATE OF GRADUATION
Students who satisfactorily turn in all 8 homework
assignments will be mailed a Certificate of Completion
at no extra charge.
Graduates are entitled to
remain on the course Yahoo group as long as they please, adding a (G)
to their student ID numbers to signify that they have assumed a
new role as my colleagues and indicating their ability to act as
mentors to newer students.
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MONTHLY HOMEWORK GRADING PARTIES
About 100 pieces of course homework are turned in
by students every month, to be graded on a pass-fail basis.
We use this opportunity to open up the class to
students, friends, guests, and visitors who can come by and share in the excitement of opening
the packages of personally collected folklore and hand-crafted
spell-work turned in by students from all over the country
and all over the world.
Our monthly homework parties are open to all students, guests,
and Lucky Mojo store customers, and they provide a good opportunity
to meet your fellow practitioners, learn a few tricks, and get in
some laughs -- so come one, come all, and let's have fun!
Homework layout and grading begins around 4:00 pm, with
pot-luck, snacks, and dinnerish food supplied around 6:00 pm -- and continues
until the last person standing falls down and goes boom
around midnight.
Dates vary, but are always around the middle to end of the month.
To find out the date of the next Homework Party, call the Lucky Mojo
Shop at 707-887-1521.
This is a drop-in event, so you can come by
and catch as little or as much of the activity as you want.
If you come early, you can also shop at Lucky Mojo, but
the store will not be kept open for shopping past its
normal closing time.
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COST OF TUITION
The cost of the Hoodoo Rootwork Correspondence Course is $2.00 per lesson, payable in advance as a
one-time fee of $104.00. You will receive a 432 page hardcover book,
bound in reddish-brown and black cloth and stamped with gold on the cover.
This book contains all 52 lessons and a lesson plan. The book is
personally inscribed to you by name, with your permanent Student ID#,
and is signed and dated by me.
There is a
shipping and handling charge of 12% ($12.48) on the book, making a total of
$116.48 for USA orders.
Foreign orders must
pay extra shipping charges, which vary by country.
California orders will be charged California sales tax.
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PAYMENT METHODS
We accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express, checks, cash, and money orders.
To order electronically, send email with all the relevant data to the Lucky Mojo Curio Co. --
mailto:order@luckymojo.com
with the subject line HOODOO COURSE -- and give us your full name,
email address, telephone number, and postal mail address -- and pay with a credit
card (including expiration date and security code number).
You can also order with a credit card by telephone if you call us between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM,
Pacific Time, any day of the week, at --
(707) 887-1521
To order with a check, cash, or money order, send mail with a form of payment,
plus your full name, email address, telephone number, and postal mail address to --
The Lucky Mojo Curio Co.
6632 Covey Road
Forestville, CA 95436
Remember to read the above Terms and Conditions and to include the
phrase "I agree to the terms" on your order, or the order will not be processed.
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THE LUCKY MOJO
HOODOO ROOTWORK HOUR
RADIO SHOW
Thanks to Rev. Dr. Kioni of drkioni.com,
the Hoodoo Rootwork Correspondence Course has expanded beyond the world of text
into live radio! Click here to read all about how you can listen to and participate in
The Lucky
Mojo Hoodoo Rootwork Hour Radio Show.
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