A single volume chaos magic book by Alan Chapman. Structured around a small set of principles and practical exercises. Full text is available on the Internet Archive.
Chaos Current / Topic
Beliefs
Working with belief as a tool, paradigm shifting
A short statement of chaos magic as practice. Carroll defines magic as the use of imaginary phenomena to create real effects and outlines belief as a tool, gnosis, and the magical link.
An introduction to chaos magic covering sigils, gnosis, banishing, and basic ritual, built around practical exercises. Plain language, short chapters. Full text on the Internet Archive.
A short essay framing chaos not as disorder but as the creative principle behind magical action. Draws on dictionary definitions, a quotation from Stephen Mace on the physics of sorcery, and Hawkins's own reading of the current.
Four-hour video of the Disinformation Company's 2000 counterculture conference in New York. Includes Grant Morrison's Pop Magic! talk alongside Robert Anton Wilson, Kenneth Anger, and others. Archived on the Internet Archive.
A modern reference book on egregores. Not chaos magic native, but frequently cited in current chaos discourse on group thoughtforms and corporate or national entities. Mark Stavish writes from a hermetic and Western mystery tradition position.
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.
Julian Vayne's Substack. Occultism, psychedelics, and chaos magic; field reports and reflective pieces. Mix of free and subscriber-only material.
Carroll's second major book. Covers aeonic theory, magical mathematics, and the Illuminates of Thanateros training system in detail. Full text on the Internet Archive.
The essay that introduced the five-models framework for understanding magical practice: spirit, energy, psychological, and information models, plus a meta-model that treats them as interchangeable tools. Short, widely referenced, and free to read online.
Post framing Baphomet as a synthesized godform for contemporary practice: a deliberately built deity constructed as a counter to what the writer calls the Mundane Spell of consumer reality.
A group chaos magic blog by Julian Vayne, Steve Dee, and Nikki Wyrd. Mixes field reports, technique pieces, and reflections on magical culture and practice in the contemporary British chaos scene.
Carroll and Kaybryn's chaos magic system, combining aeonic theory with a contemporary magical pantheon and ritual practice. Includes a 54 card Altar Icon Deck. Originally published 2014; significantly revised 2025 by Mandrake of Oxford, which is the current print.
Venkatesh Rao's lay essay threading egregores, hyperstition, and chaos magic meme-work into a single readable frame. Covers Kek, GameStop, and QAnon as worked examples of collective reality-making. Public post on Rao's Contraptions Substack.
Phil Hine's Substack, a companion to enfolding.org. Tantra, queer occulture, and chaos magic at his own pace. Mix of free and subscriber-only material.