What is Chaos Magick?

In a nut shell what is Chaos Magick and what is it primary use?

Using the oracle i call Google will give you that answer in one minute.Chaos magic - Wikipedia It’s primary use is the same as all magick techniques to get what you want=)

It’s explained from the inside (so to speak) in this booklet, link posted a while ago by Iam Incide: [url=http://orig09.deviantart.net/f231/f/2015/277/1/5/the_psychonaut_field_manual_third_pdf_edition_by_bluefluke-d8rjuxc.pdf]http://orig09.deviantart.net/f231/f/2015/277/1/5/the_psychonaut_field_manual_third_pdf_edition_by_bluefluke-d8rjuxc.pdf[/url]

And it’s on a cartoon strip at [url=http://ultraculture.org/blog/2015/11/13/the-complete-psychonaut-field-manual/]http://ultraculture.org/blog/2015/11/13/the-complete-psychonaut-field-manual/[/url]

My old man’s a chaos mage, and this got his seal of approval. :slight_smile:

There are so many different currents in Chaos Magick. Good luck in getting one explanation of it!

70s Chaos Magick was stripped-down British Ritual Magick aligned to the Chaos Science ideas of Benoit Mandelbrot. Early CM was inspired by Austin Osman Spare and probably influenced by the work of Byron Gysin and William Burroughs.

The main ideas behind CM were that belief can be modified for increased possibility, and Chaos Science phenomena are useful in paranormal experiments.

80s Chaos Magick changed as it spread. It became more freestyle under the influence of shamas Jan Fries and Richard Tegtmeier. Along the way, CM adopted the belief change systems of esoteric NLP.

In the 90s Chaos Magick changed AGAIN as it went online and went open-source. Ravers and sci-fi types took CM and Gysin’s cutup technique and made their own thing. By 2000 we had the hypersigil, a brilliant but unpredictable magickal technique.

Chaos Magick will probably change again in the future as Millenials have taken to pop psychology and magick in a big way.

Everybody who does CM will give you a different explanation of what it ‘is’ due to its open-ended nature.

You have to find out what it means to you to make sense of it. There is no such thing as cut-and-paste CM; it’s either personalized or forget it.

It isnt.

J

It seems like chaos magic is “results” driven as opposed to what is ontologically “true/correct”. As way of example, a ‘religiously based’ Palo Mayombe practitioner might insist on knowing whether a magical practitioner has the correct spiritual lineage and beliefs, etc. A chaos magician might say something like, “Can you in fact curse someone to death with this or that spell or not?”