Miguel Conner's long-running show on gnosticism, hermeticism, and the reality-hacking lineage that runs through Philip K. Dick, Jung, and the wider occult. Chaos magic appears at the periphery.
Chaos Current / Topic
History
The origins of chaos magic and key practitioners
Dr Angela Puca's YouTube channel. Academic treatment of esotericism, witchcraft, paganism, and shamanism, with interviews of practitioners including chaos magicians.
Chaos Magic!!! — Peter Carroll's course at the Maybe Logic Academy No longer available
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.
An online magazine covering chaos magic philosophy, interviews with practitioners, and related occult news. Editorial format with multiple contributors.
An early-web chaos magic library dating from the 1990s. Hosts foundational essays by Carroll, Hine, Frater U∴D∴, and others. Served over plain HTTP, so browsers display a "Not Secure" warning.
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.
Justin Sledge's academic YouTube channel on the history of magic, alchemy, and kabbalah. Not chaos magic itself, but frequently referenced by practicing chaos folk who want historical grounding.
Denis Poisson's YouTube channel. Occult book reviews and a bi-weekly Esoteric Saturdays segment, with sustained chaos magic coverage.
Alexander Eth's Western esoterica podcast. Primary focus is ceremonial and grimoire magic, with chaos magicians appearing as guests alongside Solomonic practitioners, scholars, and spirit workers. Long form interview format.
Joel Biroco's occult magazine, founded in 1985 with the final issue (#14) in 2002. The archive hosts back issues and historical material on 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. Discordianism is a philosophical influence on chaos magic.
Reddit's general occult subreddit. Broader in scope than r/chaosmagick, covering questions across traditions.
Long-running show by Gordon White, running 2014 to 2026. Conversations with practitioners, academics, and outliers about magic, animism, and spirit work. Broad in scope but rooted in chaos magic methodology. Archived, not ongoing.
Gordon White's Substack, companion to the Rune Soup podcast. Posts on practice, consciousness, and the wider weird. Mix of free and subscriber-only material. Archive of writing through 2026.
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.
Peter J. Carroll's site. Home of essays, announcements, and excerpts from his books.
Snell's 1974 essay arguing that magic is a fourth mode of perceiving reality alongside science, art, and religion. Predates the chaos magic movement and influenced it directly.
Stephen Mace's sorcery-engineering text. Treats servitors as virtual mechanics with constructible properties, drawing on Spare's sigil work to outline a complete operative system. A direct influence on both Carroll and Hine. Out of print; canonical record on Open Library.
Hakim Bey's 1991 manifesto on ontological anarchism and temporary autonomous zones. Widely circulated in the 1990s and 2000s chaos magic scene as cultural and philosophical context.
The long-form essay that seeded Davis's 1998 book TechGnosis. Excerpted in Flame Wars (Duke University Press, 1994). Traces the mystical and magical undercurrents running through information technology, from medieval memory arts to cyberspace.
Spare's foundational treatise covering the Sacred Alphabet, the Alphabet of Desire, the Death Posture, and the original sigil method. A direct source for the chaos magic sigil tradition.
The Book of Results Paid
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.
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.
Preserved materials from the Temple ov Psychick Youth, Genesis P-Orridge's late 20th century psychic magic network. Bulletins, sigil sheets, and ritual documents. TOPY practices influenced the broader chaos magic scene.
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.
UK podcast on mysticism, magic, and high strangeness. Long-form interviews with practitioners and writers in the chaos-adjacent occult orbit. Hosted by Peter C Hine and Stephen James Buckley (no relation to Phil Hine).