Path: shell.portal.com!shell.portal.com!not-for-mail From: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (nagasiva) Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi Subject: Marik: Chaos Magick (Was Re: Getting started....?) Followup-To: alt.magick,alt.magick.chaos,alt.magick.tyagi Date: 7 Dec 1995 20:30:20 -0800 Organization: Portal Communications (shell) Lines: 39 Sender: tyagi@shell.portal.com Message-ID: <4a8f0s$b7b@jobe.shell.portal.com> References: <49rrqp$atm@newsbf02.news.aol.com Reply-To: marik@aol.com (Marik) NNTP-Posting-Host: jobe.shell.portal.com [from alt.magick: marik@aol.com (Marik); sorry for any duplication techprobs] Much as I like that old reprobate Uncle Al, and even think that Kraig is useful as a presenter of traditional ceremonial magick, neither are chaos magicians. Chaos Magick is a deconstructionist freestyle approach to actualizing the magickal intention by subverting the conscious mind through altered states of consciousness. Chaos magick plays with belief structures, manipulating them to create desired effects within the psyche of the magician and the universe at large. The ultimate aim of chaos magick is often defined as the destruction of the universal consensual belief structure, also known as the end of the universe as we know it. Chaos magick is the Dada of the occult, the Stanislavsky approach to ritual. Since chaos magick is deconstructive and annihilistic it is not usually suggested that neophyte magicians engage in it. The results are often chaotic. If you actually don't give a shit about your deeply held personal beliefs, and think that your conditioning may just be fucking your life up , then chaos magick is probably for you. One more thing. Chaos magick actually works. It will definately create chaos in your life, which may not be the same thing as randomness. Read Jan Fries' Visual Magick for the best introduction I know to this style. Order it from Mandrake in England, or see if it's back in print here. Read anything you can find by Stephen Mace. Contact me by email if you want more information. In chaos marik -- CC public responses to email. READ alt.magick.tyagi. TRY : http://www.hollyfeld.org/~tyagi/nagasiva.html ______________