what exactly is Chaos Magick?

Question

how does it work? what are chaos magicians like? what is the most strangest/amazing thing you have witnessed with Chaos Magick? what can you do with Chaos Magick?

Answer 1

Hi! I'm your friendly neighborhood chaos mage. (We have a couple around here, actually.)

The basic premise is: There is no single truth, no correct belief. We create our own worlds through the power of will. To do this, we utilize techniques from any path, religion, or culture that will make our ends happen, and if we can't find one that will work, we make one up. Belief is required only for so long as it takes to accomplish something.

That, I would say, sums up unifying traits of chaotes. Other than that, we're all over the place in techniques and ideas and theories. We're all different, and probably the only unifying trait in what we're like is that we're not really like anyone else. We share a common sanity, perhaps.

You can do anything you darn well please. Some things take more work and energy than others. But really, you name it, most likely you can eventually do it.

I have witnessed and been part of many strange and amazing things, which I will not post publically due to attemts not to get locked up in an asylum. Feel free to message me for further elucidation, if you like.

ETA: Crowley wasn't a chaote, technically speaking, though many of us like him (if ever you see a chaote referring to "Uncle Al..."). The "official" start of chaos magic was 1978, when Peter Carroll published Liber Null; the ideas and many of the unifying methods had been around long before then, dating back to around the beginning of the 20th century, with Austin Osman Spare and the discovery of quantum mechanics.

Crowley, meanwhile, was a founding member of the Order of the Golden Dawn, a Hermetic society, and later came up with his own religion--Thelema--which is now practiced by the Ordo Templis Orientis. Though I'd have to say...for all intents and purposes, if Crowley wasn't a chaote proper, he was close.

Answer 2

Chaos Magick is a variety of {causing changes in the world in comformity with your will - - - ie, magick} that focuses much more on the Mage's will than on any dependence on ceremonies, rituals, or techniques. At most, each successful Chaos Mage has consistent access to some form of energy, and s/he does his/her works of magick by subjecting the person, place, thing, or phenomenon that s/he would change first with her/ his Will, and then with that energy until it changes.

So the first part for any would-be Chaos Mage is learning the techniques of Magick and getting past the need for them; then developing your will; then contacting and mastering a trans-universal energy.

The favorite energy of Chaos Mages, since it is the source of all Chaos, Change, Transformation, Growth, Development, and Destruction, is FIRE!

Most Chaos Mages don't study the ways of other Chaos Mages, except that we study the ways of all Mages, pick and choose what we like, discard the rest, and blend everything that works into our own way to do things.

Answer 3

Chaos magic is a form of magic with which practitioners claim they can shape reality. Although there are a few techniques, such as some forms of sigil magic, associated uniquely with chaos magic, practitioners borrow liberally from other belief systems, so chaos magic acts as a metabelief. Some common sources and techniques include ceremonial magic, chaos theory, science fiction, OBEs, and divination. Chaos magic is not necessarily syncretic. That is to say, practitioners do not try to fit together these different ideas so that they make sense. Rather, they temporarily assume the truth of parts of particular systems in order to accomplish their goals. Although chaos magicians differ widely, they often sympathize with the psychonaut counterculture (Terence McKenna and Robert Anton Wilson are particularly influential) and chaotic aspects of particular religions (including Taoism and Discordianism), and a number of chaos magic techniques rely on humor and the absurd.

Answer 4

Chaos magic is a form of magic with which practitioners claim they can shape reality. Although there are a few techniques, such as some forms of sigil magic, associated uniquely with chaos magic, practitioners borrow liberally from other belief systems, so chaos magic acts as a metabelief. Some common sources and techniques include ceremonial magic, chaos theory, science fiction, OBEs, and divination. Chaos magic is not necessarily syncretic. That is to say, practitioners do not try to fit together these different ideas so that they make sense. Rather, they temporarily assume the truth of parts of particular systems in order to accomplish their goals. Although chaos magicians differ widely, they often sympathize with the psychonaut counterculture (Terence McKenna and Robert Anton Wilson are particularly influential) and chaotic aspects of particular religions (including Taoism and Discordianism), and a number of chaos magic techniques rely on humor and the absurd.

Chaos magic is unique among magical traditions in that it does not attribute significance to any particular symbol or deity. Wicca and Thelema, for example, could not be what they are without the Mother goddess and Horus, respectively. In contrast, chaos magicians may (or may not) pick any concept or set of concepts to worship, invoke or evoke.

Following the tenet that anything can have significance and hold magical power, chaos magic rituals have centered around symbols as diverse as the color Octarine, a single worn sock, or Harpo Marx. In some instances these uses have developed into temporary, but elaborate cults that may be seen as parodies of more fixed magical traditions, or of fixedness in general.

Traditional deities associated with chaos, such as Tiamat, Eris, Loki and Hun Tun are also popular, as are the entities described in the Necronomicon.

The eight-pointed chaos star (or chaosphere), originally taken from the fantasy novels of Michael Moorcock is frequently used by chaos magicians. However, this preference is not shared by all and may be argued to root solely in the symbol's semi-official use by the Illuminates of Thanateros. Most chaos magicians routinely create magical symbols for themselves - see Sigil.

Answer 5

Chaos magick is different for every chaos magician. Basicly a chaos magician takes whatever they feel works for them and uses it. I've heard of using the lord of the rings characters as a panthon (gods and goddesses) for ritual. I've even heard of using smurfs!
So its alot like ceremonial magick, but with unconventional additions.

Answer 6

It's a particularly eclectic magical approach. Choas magicans mostly borrow from a type of assets and use some thing works fine for them. They don't prevent themselves to a unmarried paradigm, although they may be able to have a best deal of thought in the back of their offerings. It's no longer supposed to advertise chaos, if that used to be a main issue.

Answer 7

Research Aleister Crowley....:)

Answer 8

Its just a unque philosophy of magik. Its really the practitioner that is really different.