Urban, Hugh (2006). Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520932883. Stokastikos (n.d.). "The Ice War". Chaos International. No.23. Archived from the original on 26 December 2017 – via PhilHine.org. The author it is surprisingly reasonable and down to earth about what he expects to get from his “magical” pursuits:

Of course in a probability based universe such as this, some things remain more possible than others. Fortunately we can precisely calculate how much probability distortion a given act of magic will produce using the following equations of magic: -When evaluating work with entities the magician always needs to ask, ‘Do I get out at least as much or more than I put into this relationship, do my evoked servitors actually distort probability in the required direction, do my invoked gods and goddesses, daemons and demons actually inspire me to accomplish more than I could by ordinary means?’ Belief in a god or belief in one’s ego are the same thing. Every man is already his own diseased vision of God.” (166) There's some very interesting reflections on the ego, and it's role in thwarting your magical ability. IIUC, the ego is, of course, not real, but an amalgamation of habits, emotions, memories, and opinions about yourself. All these things can all be changed. Carroll recommends deleting any habit, and installing a new one, just to prove this to yourself. Since any desire on your part is accompanied by the ego's ambivalences, fears, graspings, contradictions, if you try to accomplish any magical aim in a mundane frame of mind your ego is sure to counteract itself - hence the need for meditation to allow your will to exercise itself without the least bit of attachment to the consequences. This really echoes New Thoughts on the need to be absolutely committed to your goal. 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] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374681474_Nonclassical_Advantage_in_Metrology_Established_via_Quantum_Simulations_of_Hypothetical_Closed_Timelike_Curves

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] Carroll, Peter J. (2010). Octavo: A Sorcerer-Scientist's Grimoire (Roundworlded.). Mandrake of Oxford. ISBN 9781906958176. 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.

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From 1994 to 2000, Grant Morrison wrote The Invisibles for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, which has been described by Morrison as a "hypersigil": "a dynamic miniature model of the magician's universe, a hologram, microcosm or 'voodoo doll' which can be manipulated in real time to produce changes in the macrocosmic environment of 'real' life." [39] Both The Invisibles and the activities of Morrison themself were responsible for bringing chaos magic to a much wider audience in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with the writer outlining their views on chaos magic in the "Pop Magic!" chapter of A Book of Lies (2003) [36] and a Disinfo Convention talk. [40] Chaos Invocation, Kult, Tumulus Anmatus, Deathrow (live), ex- Borgne (live), ex- Fides Inversa (live), ex- Valkyrja (live) The central defining tenet of chaos magic is arguably the idea that belief is a tool for achieving effects. [42] In chaos magic, complex symbol systems like Qabalah, the Enochian system, astrology or the I Ching are treated as maps or "symbolic and linguistic constructs" that can be manipulated to achieve certain ends but that have no absolute or objective truth value in themselves. [ citation needed] Religious scholar Hugh Urban notes that chaos magic's "rejection of all fixed models of reality" reflects one of its central tenets: "nothing is true everything is permitted". [12] So, a rather tragic and sad ending to a life, but thanks Ray for that entertaining and highly productive year in East Morton.

II) The Wand as an instrument of IMAGINATION. Forget about ‘willpower’, you only really succeed if you can summon your imagination to support a course of action.The solution is to become omnivorous. Someone who can think, believe, or do any of a half dozen different things is more free and liberated than someone confined to only one activity…. For this reason Sufi mystics were required to master a handful of secular trades in addition to their occult studies.” (45)