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
Sable Aradia (Diane Morrison) on group thoughtforms, drawing on Stavish, William Gibson's "semiotic ghosts", and the overlap between tulpas and egregores.
Mark Stavish's book on egregores, written from a hermetic and Western mystery tradition perspective.
Grant Morrison's essay on pop culture, comics, rock stars, brands, and advertising as modern sigil making and egregore building.
Stephen Mace applies sorcery-as-mechanics to the corporation and the state as forces that limit personal power.
Essay on the modern corporation as a deliberately made egregore existing across physical, data, and aetheric space.
Venkatesh Rao on egregores, hyperstition, and chaos magic meme-work, with Kek, GameStop, and QAnon as examples of collective reality-making.
Michael Szul argues that AI will come from occult-minded programmers, not government labs or hackers.
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.