Dr Angela Puca's YouTube channel. Academic study of esotericism, witchcraft, paganism, and shamanism, with interviews of practitioners including chaos magicians. Best source on YouTube for rigorous, footnoted treatment of the subject.
Chaos Current / Topic
History
The origins of chaos magic and key practitioners
A contemporary online magazine covering chaos magic philosophy, interviews with practitioners, and related occult news. One of the few currently active editorial sites for the scene rather than just a personal blog.
The site this directory is a spiritual successor to. Dates from the early web era. Hosts a large library of foundational essays by Carroll, Hine, Frater U∴D∴, and others that are otherwise hard to find online. Served over plain HTTP; browsers will flag it as "Not Secure."
Alexander Eth's Western esoterica podcast. Primarily ceremonial and grimoire focused, with chaos magicians appearing as guests alongside Solomonic practitioners, scholars, and spirit workers. Careful interviewing, long form episodes.
Biroco's underground occult magazine, founded in 1985, with the last issue (#14) in 2002. The archive preserves back issues and a record of the 1980s and early 2000s occult scene.
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. Not chaos magic proper but essential context. Most chaos magicians have read it; many were radicalized by it.
Reddit's broader occult subreddit. Larger than r/chaosmagick and less focused, but useful for context, questions that cross traditions, and access to a wider practitioner pool.
Gordon White's long running show. Conversations with practitioners, academics, and outliers about magic, animism, and spirit work. Broad in scope but rooted in chaos magic methodology.
John Bruno Hare's long running esoteric library. The chaos magic section includes Carroll's Liber Null excerpts, a "Defining Chaos" essay, and related texts. Spare's writings are hosted in a separate section of the same site.
Carroll's own ongoing site, home of essays and announcements.
Snell's deceptively gentle book arguing that magic is a fourth way of perceiving reality alongside science, art, and religion. Predates and helped midwife the chaos current. Still the best introduction for the philosophically inclined.
Hakim Bey's 1991 manifesto on ontological anarchism and fleeting zones of autonomy. Not magic, but adjacent. Near universal reading in the 90s and early 2000s chaos magic scene; its fingerprints are on much of the practice that followed.
Spare's foundational treatise. The Sacred Alphabet, the Alphabet of Desire, the Death Posture, and the original sigil method, written in his characteristic feverish prose. Required reading for anyone tracing chaos magic back to its source.
The first published book on chaos magic, written and self published by Ray Sherwin alongside Carroll's earliest work. A short, sigil focused primer that codified Spare's method for the new current.
Preserved materials from the Temple ov Psychick Youth, Genesis P-Orridge's late 20th century psychic magic network. Bulletins, sigil sheets, ritual ephemera. Influential on the wider chaos current by osmosis.