Miguel Conner's long-running show on gnosticism, hermeticism, and the reality-hacking lineage that runs through Philip K. Dick, Jung, and the wider occult. Chaos magic appears at the periphery.
Chaos Current / Topic
Adjacent
Currents next door: Discordianism, postmodern occultism, and other traditions that influenced or surround chaos magic
Erik Davis's active Substack. Ongoing dispatches on consciousness, technology, culture, and weird California at his own pace. Free posts alongside subscriber-only material.
Justin Sledge's academic YouTube channel on the history of magic, alchemy, and kabbalah. Not chaos magic itself, but frequently referenced by practicing chaos folk who want historical grounding.
Leary's exposition of the eight-circuit model of consciousness. Picked up by Robert Anton Wilson in Prometheus Rising. Retitled Info-Psychology in the 1987 revision. Full text on the Internet Archive.
James Ellis's long-running interview show on fringe philosophy, weird literature, accelerationism, and occulture. Reaches chaos magic through the accelerationist-occult crossover rather than directly; chaos practitioners turn up as guests.
The Discordian holy text by Greg Hill (Malaclypse the Younger) and Kerry Thornley (Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst), with a foreword by Robert Anton Wilson in later editions. Discordianism is a philosophical influence on chaos magic.
Gordon White's Substack, companion to the Rune Soup podcast. Posts on practice, consciousness, and the wider weird. Mix of free and subscriber-only material. Archive of writing through 2026.
Hakim Bey's 1991 manifesto on ontological anarchism and temporary autonomous zones. Widely circulated in the 1990s and 2000s chaos magic scene as cultural and philosophical context.
Peter Grey's Substack on magic, witchcraft, and nature. Grey co-founded Scarlet Imprint and writes from a sabbatic witchcraft position rather than a chaos one. Included as a contemporary occult voice that chaos practitioners read alongside their own.
Carl Abrahamsson's Substack, named for his long-running occulture journal. Magic, art, psychology, and the contemporary occult-cultural conversation.
UK podcast on mysticism, magic, and high strangeness. Long-form interviews with practitioners and writers in the chaos-adjacent occult orbit. Hosted by Peter C Hine and Stephen James Buckley (no relation to Phil Hine).