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The more theoretical stuff is really interesting. There's a lot of overlap with New Thought. Both systems are far more interested in using what has been empirically shown to work, and nevermind whether there's a coherent explanation behind it. Does magic really work? Is it just psychology? Who cares if it gets results? But yes, it really works, it is both inside you and outside you, as you are both yourself and more than yourself. Otto, Bernd-Christian (2020). "The Illuminates of Thanateros and the institutionalisation of religious individualisation". Religious Individualisation. pp.759–796. doi: 10.1515/9783110580853-038. ISBN 9783110580853. S2CID 213653031. MAGICAL, MYSTICAL, AND religious enterprises seek to fulfill five basic human needs, which can be identified as follows: In a technique somewhat analogous to a mathematician using the vast store of axioms, theorems and conjectures developed by other mathematicians and suggested by nature, magicians evoke and invoke various real and imaginary entities, archetypes, and egregores on the basis of the experimental belief that the universe probably contains something somewhere that knows how to do anything, or to confer any knowledge or ability the magician might require.

David Bowie compared the randomness of the cut-up technique to the randomness inherent in traditional divinatory systems, like the I Ching or Tarot. [49] Preluded by Kenneth Grant – who had studied with both Crowley and Spare, and who had introduced elements of H.P. Lovecraft's fictional Cthulhu mythos into his own magical writings [38] – there was a trend for chaos magicians to perform rituals invoking or otherwise dealing with entities from Lovecraft's work, such as the Great Old Ones. Hine, for example, published The Pseudonomicon (1994), a book of Lovecraftian rites. [14]Our ego is a fiction of stable self-hood which maintains itself by perpetuating the distinctions of "what I am/what I am not, what I like/what I don't like", beliefs about ones politics, religion, gender preference, degree of free will, race, subculture etc all help maintain a stable sense of self. [45] Cut-up technique [ edit ] Chaos Invocation, Kult, Tumulus Anmatus, Deathrow (live), ex- Borgne (live), ex- Fides Inversa (live), ex- Valkyrja (live) At the very least it is a useful book for learning about your True Self, or your whole self by experimenting with different personas, or adopting myths that help you get a handle on aspects of your psyche that you want to understand, control, or make use of. You learn alot about yourself by identifying your desires in life, but most people put limitations on their life by trying to be too 'realistic' all the time, too enslaved to strict rationality; thus unfulfilled, and complacent. Pandaemonaeon + PRINCIPIA CHAOTICA By Peter Carroll Chaos Magic for the Pandaemeon In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends … Read More Carroll, Peter J. (1 April 2020). "Hypersphere Cosmology 5". ResearchGate . Retrieved 29 November 2022.

A diverting miscellany of Pop Occult wank templates beloved to obese, ponytailed goth bros. (Imagine Deepak Chopra weaned on White Wolf and Chaosium tabletop RPGs and early Dead Can Dance records.) The priest arouses within himself a resurgence of the Chi, or Kundalini, or Sacred Firesnake, as it is variously known. Other participants may assist by delivering such incantations as the incomparable ‘Hymn to Pan,’ by projecting a visualization of the averse pentagram into the priest, and if need be, by administering the Osculum Infame. (This so-called obscene kiss to the devil’s hindquarters has been much misunderstood. All that is required is that one breathes onto the peritoneum, the space between the genitals and the anus – inside of which the kundalini awaits to be aroused.)” (131) Morris, Brian (2006). Religion and Anthropology: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge University Press. pp.303ff. ISBN 978-0-521-85241-8. I rather suspected that he had lost his critical faculties, and friends have confirmed that both Ray and his wife had sunk deeply into alcoholism, poverty, and conspiracy theory, and that their young daughter had become their carer. Having watched my own father drink himself to death decades ago, I concluded that alcoholism results from a Failure of Imagination; failure to realise what it does to you, and failure to imagine doing something else instead.Austin Osman Spare's work in the early to mid 1900s is largely the source of chaos magical theory and practice. [13] [14] Specifically, Spare developed the use of sigils and the use of gnosis to empower them. [14] [15] Although Spare died before chaos magic emerged, he has been described as the "grandfather of chaos magic". [16] Working during much the same period as Spare, Aleister Crowley's publications also provided a marginal yet early and ongoing influence, particularly for his syncretic approach to magic and his emphasis on experimentation and deconditioning. [17] Later, concurrent with the growth of religions such as Wicca in the 1950s and 1960s, different forms of magic became more common, some of which came in "explicitly disorganized, radically individualized, and often quite 'chaotic' forms". [18] In the 1960s and the decade that followed, Discordianism, the punk movement, postmodernism and the writings of Robert Anton Wilson emerged, and they were to become significant influences on the form that chaos magic would take. [19] [20] In the late 1970s, Peter Carroll and Ray Sherwin, two young British occultists interested in ritual magic, began to publish a magazine called The New Equinox. Both men were connected with a burgeoning occult scene developing around The Phoenix, a metaphysical bookshop in London's East End. Having grown dissatisfied with the state of the magical arts and the deficiencies they saw in the available occult groups, they published a small announcement in a 1978 issue of their magazine, announcing the creation of the Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT), [3] which has been described as "an unprecedented attempt of institutionalising one of the most individualising currents in the history of 'Western learned magic'". [4]