Jan Fries on "freestyle shamanism": trance, breathwork, and freehand automatic drawing as a route to sigils and vision, from Zos Kia Cultus, Thelema, and Taoist sources rather than a fixed system.
Chaos Current / Books
Books
In print, out of print, classics, newer arrivals
Carroll's follow-up to Liber Null and Liber Kaos. Short aphoristic chapters and exercises on chaos magic theory through cybernetics, probability, and self-modification.
Jan Fries on seidr and trance technique: shaking, swaying, and serpent-power methods for reaching altered states, from Northern European and other sources.
Ray Sherwin on a magical working as theatre: secrecy, self-initiation, liminal gnosis, and banishing.
Stephen Mace applies sorcery-as-mechanics to the corporation and the state as forces that limit personal power.
Stephen Mace on sorcery as engineering: building servitors and a full working system based on Spare's sigils.
Mark Stavish's book on egregores, written from a hermetic and Western mystery tradition perspective.
Crowley's commentary on the Thoth Tarot, illustrated by Frieda Harris.
Joshua Wetzel's chaos magic training grimoire, with long sections on godform construction, invocation, and the eight-colour pantheon.
Leary's book laying out the eight-circuit model of consciousness.
Austin Osman Spare's short sermon against hypocrisy and conventional morality.
Austin Osman Spare's book of aphorisms and drawings.
Part III of Crowley's Magick (Liber ABA). Ritual technique in depth: banishings, invocations, making and using magical instruments, the Mass of the Phoenix, and Crowley's theory of magical energy.
Crowley's table of correspondences mapping the Tree of Life to colors, herbs, gods, perfumes, and many other categories, built from Golden Dawn material and Allan Bennett's earlier tables.
Alan Chapman's chaos magic book, built on a few core principles and practical exercises.
The Invisibles Paid
Grant Morrison's comic series. A conspiracy-occult story steeped in chaos magic. Morrison has described writing it as a magical working.
Carroll's first book. Sigils, gnosis, the magical pact, and magical psychology.
An introduction to chaos magic through practical exercises: sigils, gnosis, banishing, and basic ritual. Plain language, short chapters.
Carroll's second major book. Aeonic theory, magical mathematics, and the Illuminates of Thanateros training system in detail.
Hine's companion to Condensed Chaos. Ritual structures, evocation, group work, and possession in more depth. Foreword by Grant Morrison.
The Book of Results Paid
The first book on chaos magic, by Ray Sherwin. A short primer on sigils built on Spare's method.
A practical guide to sigil work: multiple methods, construction, charging, and firing, with exercises and variations.
Andrieh Vitimus's exercise-heavy course in the Ovayki current. Practice over theory.
Aidan Wachter's handbook on chaos magic, animism, and folk practice. Sigils, servitors, candle work, talismans, and spirit ecology.
Thirteen essays by current chaos magic practitioners, edited by Carroll. Contributors include Aidan Wachter, Carl Abrahamsson, Dave Lee, Ivy Corvus, Julian Vayne, Lionel Snell, and others.
A short beginner's guide in two halves, theory and praxis. Basic chaos magic concepts and introductory exercises.
Lionel Snell's essay on magic as a fourth way of seeing the world, alongside science, art, and religion.
The Discordian holy text by Greg Hill (Malaclypse the Younger) and Kerry Thornley (Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst). Later editions have a foreword by Robert Anton Wilson.
Hakim Bey's manifesto on ontological anarchism and temporary autonomous zones.