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I read into it, liked it so far, I liked the part about incorporating laughter
I had a phase where I was reciting mantras all day everywhere I went, I was way calmer and more joyful through it.
You're right, refreshing some things, especially the simple things one sometimes forgets can be worth a scrub after a 1000 year itch!
Yeah, the reason I called this "foundational" was many people skip over this stuff if they bother with it at all. The foundation is an important part of Anything. After Liber MMM, Liber Lux and Liber Nox, then things are much more in line for let's talk advanced stuff, but at least Carroll tried to instill the Importance of a Foundation! I'm not going to deconstruct them here (I did plan to) I can see that would tax some folks patience. At this point
I'm going see where this puppy goes for better or worse. If it gets too wonky I might try to save it, I'd like to think it was constructive overall. So chime in with whatever you think worthwhile, or don't, and we'll let it end gracefully!
That's an attitude and methodology that for a long time I needed to act "as if" and force it for anything less than pleasant. It took many times re-reading that paragraph before I finally did "get it" and it's been a valuable trick indeed! Even if Laughter isn't possible, smiling "inwardly" helps.
This kind of laughter can appear to others who are not aware to be a bit Grim!
It's just so uncanny to listen to , and eerily close to my own meta-views, and how I guess how it, uh... works.... at the core of the practice.
Whelp, Happy Halloween!
Recently I read through The King in Orange by John Michael Greer. He thinks there was a strong possibility that the "disenfranchised elements" (those over educated but unemployable, as well as the general unemployed factions) mostly on 4chan, et al, used Chaos Magick to good effect in the 2016 Presidential election. The fact that Hypersigils make good "memes" he thinks was a large part of the success.
I tend to like much of JMG's non-occult writing, books and essays more so than his occult stuff, he does good economic and political analysis IMO.
Any thoughts?
I'm very indebted to John Michael Greer's blog , which I was reading back in 2015, for helping me recognize how my entertainment industry white collar career primed me into voting in support of my own class interests against the blue-collar working class. He helped me see how both "Woke" activism and 4chan emerge from the same source of economic insecurity and blocked class mobility after the 2008 financial crisis.
The Millennials attacked us Gen-Xers in games and film using "Woke" as wedge issues to force us out. The ownership class, always looking for cheaper labor , were all too quick to accept their argument they were "hip to the kids, being younger" so it worked to a large degree. I was already management, but still had to deal with it. The result was over a decade of increasingly shittier, boring , broken video games, and an industry burning to the ground.
My friend in NYC book publishing, a woman, got pushed out by a younger female colleague who weaponized political language against her. When good jobs disappear then moral purity becomes the new credential. You eliminate competition by calling them "problematic" and cry-bully them until they get let go. Being Gen-X and very work focused she had no idea about the language being weaponized against her.
Meanwhile, the 4chan nihilism (locked out entirely) happens when you have no institutional power, can't compete in the credentialed economy, and attack its legitimacy. I get it. Well Greer helped me get it. We in the U.S. Democrat party had abandoned the working class since the 1970's, and coasted on brand power alone.
I see most of the low-information Boomer-Millennial occultism that came about in the past 15 years as originating in a similar or same socioeconomic survival tactic, to pose as Grand High Wiz Hufflepuff to make second income for themselves.
Been this evening for the first time ever in life on the chaosmatrix website. Didn't know the website. Thank goodness, what a lot to read! If you think: why is AlfrunGrima suddenly a little bit silent, than that's the why.
Been this evening for the first time ever in life on the chaosmatrix website. Didn't know the website. Thank goodness, what a lot to read! If you think: why is AlfrunGrima suddenly a little bit silent, than that's the why.
Curious to see what folks think of these supposedly graded training programs: Neophyte - Liber MMM, Initiate - Both Liber Lux (White magick) and Liber Nox (Black magick) and Adept Liber AOM. It can take a while to get through Liber AOM. Once all those are in the bag we can go forward with Liber Kaos like the Eight Magics and the extremely comprehensive Liber KKK, this one is guaranteed sharpen your skills to the next level.
Curious to see what folks think of these supposedly graded training programs: Neophyte - Liber MMM, Initiate - Both Liber Lux (White magick) and Liber Nox (Black magick) and Adept Liber AOM. It can take a while to get through Liber AOM. Once all those are in the bag we can go forward with Liber Kaos like the Eight Magics and the extremely comprehensive Liber KKK, this one is guaranteed sharpen your skills to the next level.
Because I don't think there is a better way to understand "Foundational Chaos Magick" (if you're new to it) I was going to write up a synopsis on the contents I listed above but Simon Gladstone seems to have done a super bang-up job of his own over on Medium. So it seems like reinventing the wheel isn't necessary because it's a lot of work to do it as well as he has with his series there:
It's a pretty good series and it will give you an idea if further study, as in really Reading the Book and Practicing what's in it is for You?
N.B. All these links work as I intended them to, that said I'm not a fan of "Medium", the site can be a little slow and appear wonky so give the pages a little time to load up and they'll look fine!
Curious to see what folks think of these supposedly graded training programs: Neophyte - Liber MMM, Initiate - Both Liber Lux (White magick) and Liber Nox (Black magick) and Adept Liber AOM. It can take a while to get through Liber AOM. Once all those are in the bag we can go forward with Liber Kaos like the Eight Magics and the extremely comprehensive Liber KKK, this one is guaranteed sharpen your skills to the next level.
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Because I don't think there is a better way to understand "Foundational Chaos Magick" (if you're new to it) I was going to write up a synopsis on the contents I listed above but Simon Gladstone seems to have done a super bang-up job of his own over on Medium. So it seems like reinventing the wheel isn't necessary because it's a lot of work to do it as well as he has with his series there:
It's a pretty good series and it will give you an idea if further study, as in really Reading the Book and Practicing what's in it is for You?
N.B. All these links work as I intended them to, that said I'm not a fan of "Medium", the site can be a little slow and appear wonky so give the pages a little time to load up and they'll look fine!
It's worth considering the basic esoteric background of the two primary co-founders of what would eventually become Chaos Magick.
Both Peter Carroll and Ray Sherwin had at least some exposure to these paradigms:
Animism / Shamanism
European Cunning Craft / Witchcraft / Afro-Caribbean and Afro Diaspora paradigms
The Theosophical Society
The Golden Dawn / RR et AC and it's primary offshoots: Dion Fortune (Fraternity / Society of the Inner Light, and Aleister Crowley's A.A. and the OTO.
New Thought
Various Eastern paradigms: Hindu, Buddhist, Daoist/Taoist, et al
They were both also fairly well educated in the exoteric sense as well, Carroll having been a "seconday" level teacher.
So.. with with this basic background (and I'm sure this is stenographic in it's brevity) what would eventually become Chaos Magic began to form in their minds. They knew that others had much of the same background and experience as they did, and some not so much. What could they do to level the playing field so that anyone could come up to speed regardless of prior knowledge and experience? I think that between the two of them they created the skeletal framework with four books that are Foundational to being a well rounded Chaos Magician, these are:
Peter Carroll:
Liber Null and slightly later Psychonaut
Liber Chaos
Ray Sherwin:
The Book of Results
The Theatre of Magic (British English)
With these four books Chaos Magick had now become a new Meta-Paradigm. Someone with little or even no prior experience could begin to practice the newly minted form of Chaos Magick, and... "get results"!
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I've tried to stress the importance of the Foundational principles of what became Chaos Magic because (at least to me) it's been helpful to put everything into perspective. I'm one of those that appreciates at least some form of organization I guess, that said I believe this thread can also talk Advanced Chaos Magick too! It's certainly open for that if you wanna jump in!
