Chaos Current / People
People
Authors, editors, podcasters, and others connected to the chaos magic tradition.
Aidan Wachter Author of Six Ways, Weaving Fate, and Changeable. Work draws on chaos
magic, animism, and folk practice.
3 entries Alan Chapman British chaos magician and author of Advanced Magick for Beginners.
1 entry Aleister Crowley English occultist and founder of Thelema. Author of Magick in Theory
and Practice, Liber 777, and The Book of the Law. An upstream
influence on chaos magic.
4 entries Andrieh Vitimus American practitioner and author of Hands-On Chaos Magic.
2 entries Austin Osman Spare Early 20th century artist and occultist. Originator of sigil magic and
the death posture. A direct source for the chaos current.
4 entries Carl Abrahamsson Swedish author, editor, and filmmaker. Editor of the long-running
occulture journal The Fenris Wolf. Contributor to This Is Chaos
(2025). Writes on magic, art, psychology, and the contemporary
occult-cultural conversation.
1 entry Dave Lee IOT founding member and author of Chaotopia! and Bright From the Well.
Long record of ritual and breathwork practice.
2 entries Douglas Batchelor Host of the What Magic Is This? podcast. Self-identifies as a chaos
magician turned necromantic ritualist.
1 entry Erik Davis American writer and scholar. Author of TechGnosis (1998) and High
Weirdness. Long-running commentator on the intersection of magic,
technology, and counterculture.
2 entries Frater U∴D∴ German chaos magician and author of Practical Sigil Magic and High Magic.
Originated the five-models framework in his essay Models of Magic.
2 entries Genesis P-Orridge Founder of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY) and of Throbbing Gristle.
Central figure in the intersection of magic and industrial culture.
2 entries Gordon White Host of the Rune Soup podcast and author of several books. Topics span
chaos magic, animism, and spirit work.
2 entries Grant Morrison Scottish comics writer. Author of The Invisibles and the essay Pop
Magic!, among many other works. Draws on chaos magic in creative output
and public writing.
4 entries Hakim Bey Pen name of Peter Lamborn Wilson. Author of T.A.Z. (1991), a manifesto
on ontological anarchism adjacent to the chaos magic scene.
1 entry Ivy Corvus Author of Pagan Portals: Chaos Magic (Moon Books, 2026).
2 entries Jaq D. Hawkins British chaos magician. Author of Understanding Chaos Magic (1996),
Chaos Witch, and The Chaonomicon.
3 entries Joel Biroco Editor of KAOS magazine (1985 to 2002). Associated with the
KAOS-Babalon 156 current.
1 entry Joshua Wetzel IOT-member chaos magician and author of The Paradigmal Pirate
(2006), a complete chaos magic training grimoire.
1 entry Julian Vayne British occultist. Author of Getting Higher and co-author of Chaos
Craft. Contributor to The Blog of Baphomet.
5 entries Kerry Thornley Co-author of the Principia Discordia, writing as Lord Omar Khayyam
Ravenhurst.
1 entry Luxa Strata Host of the Lux Occult podcast. Frames her practice and the show
through chaos magic and experimental audio-magick.
1 entry Malaclypse the Younger Pen name of Greg Hill, co-author of the Principia Discordia. Central
figure in Discordianism.
1 entry Mark Stavish American occult author writing from a hermetic and Western mystery
tradition position. Author of Egregores: The Occult Entities That
Watch Over Human Destiny (2018), a widely cited modern reference
book on the topic.
1 entry Peter Grey British author and co-founder of Scarlet Imprint. Writes from a
sabbatic witchcraft position rather than a chaos one. Included
as a contemporary occult voice that chaos practitioners read
alongside their own.
1 entry Peter J. Carroll Co-originator of modern chaos magic alongside Ray Sherwin. Co-founder of
the Illuminates of Thanateros. Author of Liber Null, Liber Kaos, and
later works.
10 entries Phil Hine Author of Condensed Chaos and Prime Chaos. Writes across chaos magic
theory, ritual, and group work.
4 entries Ramsey Dukes Pen name of Lionel Snell. Author of SSOTBME (1974) and other writings on
the philosophy of magic. SSOTBME predates the chaos magic movement and
influenced its early development.
4 entries Ray Sherwin Co-originator of chaos magic. Author of The Book of Results (1978), the
first published book on chaos magic, and The Theatre of Magick.
1 entry Robert Anton Wilson Author of Illuminatus! (with Robert Shea), Cosmic Trigger, and Prometheus
Rising. A philosophical source for the chaos current through model agnosticism
and reality tunnels.
3 entries Stephen Mace American chaos magician and author of Stealing the Fire from Heaven
(1984). Mace's framing of magic as sorcery engineering was a direct
influence on Carroll and Hine.
1 entry Steve Dee British chaos magician. Co-author of Chaos Craft and author of A Brush
with the Divine. Contributor to The Blog of Baphomet.
4 entries Timothy Leary American psychologist and writer. Developed the eight-circuit model
of consciousness. Upstream influence on chaos magic via Robert
Anton Wilson.
1 entry William S. Burroughs American writer and co-developer with Brion Gysin of the cut-up
technique. A direct technical influence on chaos magic sigil practice.
1 entry