Chaos Current / Topic
Orders, working groups, and collective rites
Gabriel Kennedy's firsthand account of Peter Carroll's chaos magic course at Robert Anton Wilson's Maybe Logic Academy. Walks through the seminar's group practice methodology, exercises, and the dynamics of online magical instruction.
Dave Lee's personal site. IOT founding member and author of Chaotopia!. Links out to his Patreon and Teachable for essays and structured courses.
Argument for the value of collaborative magical practice, followed by a walk through a collaboratively built chaos magick tarot deck with divinatory readings of individual cards.
The British section of the Illuminates of Thanateros, a chaos magic magical order founded in 1978. The site hosts essays, event listings, membership information, and a record of the section's work.
Hine's companion to Condensed Chaos, published around the same time. Covers ritual structures, evocation, group work, and possession in greater depth. Foreword by Grant Morrison. Full text on the Internet Archive.
Peter J. Carroll's own retrospective on founding the Illuminates of Thanateros: the Pact, its early years, structural decisions, and its evolution into a working magical order. Reads as both history and guidance for anyone considering an order. Hosted on the Hermetic Library.
Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth's self-description of their non-hierarchical "station and access point" organisational model — a widely known alternative to the IOT's order structure in the 1980s and 1990s chaos-adjacent world. Hosted on the Hermetic Library.