Short video essay in which Ramsey Dukes (Lionel Snell) walks through what egregores are and how to think about them.
Chaos Current / Topic
Egregores
Group thoughtforms and collective magical constructs
Synthesizes Stavish, William Gibson's "semiotic ghosts", and the tulpa/egregore overlap into a working theory of group thoughtforms. Sable Aradia (Diane Morrison) writes from a Wicca-leaning position; the piece itself is squarely on egregore theory. Hosted on Patheos.
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.
Morrison's essay from Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult. Argues that pop culture, comics, rock stars, brands, and advertising function as contemporary sigil making and egregore building. Available in full on the Internet Archive.
Reads the modern corporation as an intentional egregoric entity that persists across physical, data, and aetheric space. Originally published on Key23 Occulture; archived on the Hermetic Library.
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.
Essay arguing that artificial intelligence will emerge from the work of occult-minded computer programmers rather than from government labs or hackers. Originally published in Konton magazine; archived on the Hermetic Library. The archive tags the piece with "egregore".
Thirteen essays by current chaos magic practitioners, edited by Carroll, with a foreword by Ronald Hutton. Contributors include Aidan Wachter, Carl Abrahamsson, Dave Lee, Ivy Corvus, Julian Vayne, Lionel Snell, and others.