So this product design phase has reinvigorated my approach to chaos magick. These ideas are original, direct and above all, practical. Personally i think that crowleys magic in theory and practice unabridged is the first chaos magick book. Chaos magick and punk rock, the rise and fall of chaos. Heres the 5 best books to get a deeper understanding of exactly what magick is my house is almost completely filled with books, a good portion of which are related to magick. Chaos magick, ray sherwins take on chaos, magickal groups, and teaching chaos. Chaos magick is meant to be the most practical, simplified, barebones way to shift reality, but most books give you wild theory and no practical magick. By renouncing order and focussing only on chaos, the practitioner is already lost his balance, and will plunge into the void. I am not here today to tell you about the official school of chaos magick, there are plenty of others more qualified to do so. I use a formula, created by instinctive guess and arbitrarily formed, not evolved by hypothesis and experiment.
However, this is chaos magick in its true form without much chaos. Chaos magick is the moment you realize that all magick is stupid and bullshit because its all in your mind, its just make believe. The 5 best books for truly understanding magick and the occult. Thats because i spent most of my twenties delving into hard occult theory, to make sure i got it right. Handson chaos magic is just what it says, and the next best thing to working with the master himselflon milo duquette, author of the magick of aleister crowley. I dont belong to labels, or schools or any one tradition. Chaos magick allows you to send your mad thoughts out for a night out occasionally. No new age silliness, no goth theatrics, no dry academic memorizationits a method of putting yourself into extreme states of consciousness, in order to gain direct access to your unconscious mind, change it, and thereby radically change your life. Spare listings, a february 2000 catalog of some of spares sketches, with images.
Through it you can change your circumstances, live according to a developing sense of personal responsibility, effect change around you, and stop living as a helpless cog in some clockwork universe. A close associate of the trad workers party, and the alt right in general, is known antiwhite psychopath, alexander dugin. Top 5 facts about chaos magick part 1 dark 5 snarled. This short book will guide you through the very basics of starting a practice of chaos magick and seeing how magick can work for you. Carrolls liber null, ray sherwins the book of results and ramsay dukes thundersqueak. Whats the best book on chaos magick, in your opinion. Lon milo duquette, author of the magick of aleister crowley. Chaos magick is the cutting edge of the occult, a streamlined practice for causing profound changes in consciousness, and therefore equally massive changes in your life.
They contain all the information that this book has, plus a lot more in depth knowledge missing from condensed chaos. Its an incredible, concise piece of work, demonstrating how to use altered states of consciousness and flexible belief to achieve a greater experience of reality. Condensed chaos provides a practical introduction to chaos magic, one of the fastest growing areas of western occultism. The following documents have been gathered together from dusty corners of the internet or an old bbs. What people are saying i found this a great introductory course that gave context for using chaos magick in a grounded manner, and explained how to stay on an ethical path, integrating these practices into ones normal life. It strips the esoteric and foggy terminology you will find in most other magick books to its bare bones, revealing the most practical approach to energy manipulations, creating sigils, invocations and much more. The chaos magicians believe that creating sigils with a certain intent will magically bring about said intention. Rituals and spell objectives and design in eight magics.
I wish id had access to something oriented to spiritual. Cmg direct bloodline descendant of the original cmg chaos magick group that fell on the battlefield of the. If youre the author of any of these, get in touch and update the librarian on what youre up to these days. Chaos magic also referred to as chaos magick is a form of ritual magic, first formulated in west yorkshire, england in the 1970s, with which practitioners claim they can shape reality. Basic exercises chaos magick matos spells and magic. Chaos magick and morality, uncle chuckies take on morality in chaos magick. Handson chaos magic is just what it says, and the next best thing to working with the master himself. An old point that bears repeating, one of the most insightful and concise explanations of chaos magic to date. The chaos in this book is anything but disorganised. Rachel has done two years of research on chaos magick and still doesnt have all the answers, however, here are 6 basic guidelines when dabbling in chaos magick. Find over 5 chaos magick groups with 581 members near you and meet people in your local community who share your interests. Chaos magick is an egocentric ideology that has no specific doctrine or form. Everything you need to start practicing chaos magick.
Chaos magick is your magick if and when you find ityou. How i used the secrets of magick and the occult to start living my dream life. Chaos magick is the art and science of changing your own mind, and thereby changing reality. A brief outline of my views on chaos magick, which i studied from 2008 to 2012, and a bit about how it influenced my current practices.
This practicebased book covers all the main aspects of practical chaos magic and is. It says, i dont give a damn if it is stupid as long as i get results. Chaos magick is a form of manifesting, which caters to the individual, and borrows from other belief systems as the central belief in chaos magick is that belief is a tool according to wikipedia some common sources of inspiration include such diverse areas asscience fiction, scientific theories, traditional ceremonial magic, neoshamanism, eastern. Austin osman spare and the zos kia cultus, by kenneth grant. Introduction to chaos magick everything you need to practice effective. However, i have learned much from chaos magic, and use it often, so, in the spirit of chaos, i will tell you what chaos magic means to me, how i use it, and how it. The two books i would recommend to anyone interested in chaos magick, whether they are new or experienced, would be peter j. Tao of jeet kune do by bruce lee is the best non magick chaos magick book in my opinion. Contrary to what comes over in books, magick is a streetlevel activity gutterlevel, even. It is generally agreed among chaos magicians that magick is a process of the psyche, not a nebulous spirit or some such thing.
The current state of chaos magick in the present time has only maneuvered to some certain state due to lack of imagination and vision. Chaos magicians sometimes referred to as chaoists or chaotes operate from the assumption that our belief systems can be used pragmatically to alter probabilities, and to. Its a system for making a human life more perfectand can steadily and consistently bring profound, transcendent meaning to your life. Chaos magick was born during the late 1970s with the publication of peter j. Chaos magic is absolutely nondogmatic and nonsectarian.
Just like normal magick, but without a lot of the frills. You get everything you need to start practice immediatelywithout frills, mumbo jumbo, dogma, goth theatrics or new age silliness. Advanced ideas in chaos magick 1995 chaos magic differs from other occult traditions such as thelema or wicca in that it rejects the existence of absolute truth, and views all occult systems as arbitrary symbolsystems that. This completely goes against what is presented as chaos magic in books such as liber null and psychonaut. When i was old enough to get a job, i bought more books on wicca and witchcraft, including more cunningham books and raymond bucklands complete book of witchcraft. If i was just starting with chaos magick, i would definitely start with this book before moving to more complicated and theoretical works. Everything you need to know to begin a serious practice of magick, meditation and mysticismall packed in to a free book and 10day email course. No matter your background, you can use chaos magic. Chaos magick incorporates mysticism, supernatural, dark fantasy etc. Its also states that believe is a tool which means that even if you dont agree that all magick is psychological which i know that all magick is not just psychological, you still subscribe to the chaos magick paradigm that.
There are many ways this is achieved, which will be discussed later. All conceptsrituals practiquesbeliefpatterns contained herein are presented as working models only, awaiting your personal touch to be experiences, explored, understood, altered and ultimately transcended. I liked all of these books, but i started to get a little bit disenchanted with wicca. Chaos magic, also spelled chaos magick, is a contemporary magical practice. Spares death posture the book of pleasure self love the psychology of ecstasy, by austin osman spare. Rituals and spell objectives and design in eight magics by pete carroll our perceptual and conceptual apparatus creates a fourfold division of matter into the space, time, mass, and energy tautology. The psychonaut field manual, attached in whole below, is a comic book guide to chaos magick created by bluefluke. Its about reordering your reality and directing life the way you want. Although there are a few techniques unique to chaos magic such as some forms of sigil magic, practices can be highly individualistic, borrowing liberally. It was initially developed in england in the 1970s, drawing heavily from the philosophy of artist and occultist austin osman spare.
Many seem to treat chaos magic as some sort of religion to the extent that, in their classes, they may even talk about the difficulty of integrating chaos magic with a wiccan ritual. How i used chaos magick to break free and live my dream. This book presents a revolutionary style of chaos magick. It is the authors sincere wish that this manual will be of help on your journey. Magick encompasses all opposites, including order and chaos equally. The discipline described by sherwin is far from the adhoc, makeitupasyougoalong rituals that often seems to accompany much of. But, the problem with some previous books on chaos magic is that they have been too theoretical and philosophical. There are some books that are required reading for the dedicated student, and this list represents my top five books dedicated to chaos magick books that defined chaos magick as a distinct field of study and practice. Chaos magick is not about causing chaos with magick. When it was invented, chaos magick probably seemed like a great big sloppy madness compared to the refined rites, robes, and rituals of old. Lack of dogma can often lead to emptiness of concepts and then the boat literally runs aground.
Liber null, first published in the late 1970s by ray sherwin, is the handbook for the. Sometimes referred to as success magic or resultsbased magic, chaos magic claims to emphasize the attainment of specific results over the symbolic, ritualistic. Chaos, chaos is the field which underlies all things. Techniques in chaos magick i fucking love chaos magick. For discussions of, questions about, images relevant, or anything at all pertaining to the rather wacky occult subculturepractice known as chaos magick. Sleight of mind in chaos magick is the act of sneaking magickal operations passed ones own subconscious resistance, skepticism andor censorship to trick oneself into getting results. Chaos magick is simply postmodern magick in just about every sense of the word which imo is its strength but it has a mercenary flavor to it which could be a set back. I might never have done so if i could have been a part of some organized tradition or coven. Sleight of mind occurs when the chaote adopts a useful beliefsystem aka b.