A single volume chaos magic book by Alan Chapman. Structured around a small set of principles and practical exercises. Full text is available on the Internet Archive.
Chaos Current / Topic
Theory
Foundational ideas and metaphysics of practice
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.
A short text by Austin Osman Spare, published 1927. Full text on the Hermetic Library.
Dr Angela Puca's YouTube channel. Academic treatment of esotericism, witchcraft, paganism, and shamanism, with interviews of practitioners including chaos magicians.
Peter J. Carroll on apophenia — the perception of patterns in randomness — as the cognitive mechanism underneath all divination. Connects divinatory practice to his Apophenia godform and the broader sigil and probability work of chaos magic. Hosted on Specularium.
Early essay on automatic drawing as a magical and artistic method, co-written with Frederick Carter. Describes a subconscious technique of mark-making that became the technical basis for Spare's later sigil work. Full text on the Hermetic Library.
Erik Davis's active Substack. Ongoing dispatches on consciousness, technology, culture, and weird California at his own pace. Free posts alongside subscriber-only material.
Cassandra Snow and Siri Vincent Plouff's show on folk and chaos magic from a queer liberation lens. Started in 2025. Distributed via Apple Podcasts.
A short statement of chaos magic as practice. Carroll defines magic as the use of imaginary phenomena to create real effects and outlines belief as a tool, gnosis, and the magical link.
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.
Dave Lee's personal site. IOT founding member and author of Chaotopia!. Links out to his Patreon and Teachable for essays and structured courses.
An introduction to chaos magic covering sigils, gnosis, banishing, and basic ritual, built around practical exercises. Plain language, short chapters. Full text on the Internet Archive.
Andrieh Vitimus's chaos magic podcast, running alongside his book Hands-On Chaos Magic. Interviews and discussion of technique, paradigm, and the contemporary scene. Distributed via Apple Podcasts.
A short essay framing chaos not as disorder but as the creative principle behind magical action. Draws on dictionary definitions, a quotation from Stephen Mace on the physics of sorcery, and Hawkins's own reading of the current.
Longer-form talk by Grant Morrison at the Omega Institute on magical practice, sigils, and the writing of The Invisibles as a magical working. Archived on the Internet Archive.
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.
Short video essay in which Ramsey Dukes (Lionel Snell) walks through what egregores are and how to think about them.
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.
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.
Leary's exposition of the eight-circuit model of consciousness. Picked up by Robert Anton Wilson in Prometheus Rising. Retitled Info-Psychology in the 1987 revision. Full text on the Internet Archive.
Denis Poisson's YouTube channel. Occult book reviews and a bi-weekly Esoteric Saturdays segment, with sustained chaos magic coverage.
James Ellis's long-running interview show on fringe philosophy, weird literature, accelerationism, and occulture. Reaches chaos magic through the accelerationist-occult crossover rather than directly; chaos practitioners turn up as guests.
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.
Julian Vayne's Substack. Occultism, psychedelics, and chaos magic; field reports and reflective pieces. Mix of free and subscriber-only material.
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.
A system of correspondences mapping the Tree of Life to colors, herbs, gods, perfumes, and many other categories. Compiled and annotated by Crowley from Golden Dawn source material and Allan Bennett's earlier tables. Widely used as a reference by practitioners across traditions. Full text on the Internet Archive.
Crowley's technical libri on the method of Bhakti: how to choose a deity, structure a devotional practice, and use that relationship as the engine of magical work. A canonical reference for godform practice. Full text on the Hermetic Library.
Carroll's second major book. Covers aeonic theory, magical mathematics, and the Illuminates of Thanateros training system in detail. Full text on the Internet Archive.
The founding primer for modern chaos magic technique. Sigils, gnosis, the magical pact, the practice of magical psychology. This 2022 Weiser Classics revised edition adds a Ronald Hutton foreword. Full text on the Internet Archive.
Luxa Strata's podcast on magic, art, and ritual, framed through chaos magic and experimental audio-magick. Episodes mix conversations with practitioners and crafted audio pieces. Distributed via Apple Podcasts.
Part III of Magick (Liber ABA). Covers ritual technique in depth: banishings, invocations, the construction and use of magical instruments, the Mass of the Phoenix, and Crowley's theory of magical energy. An upstream reference for anyone working with structured ritual. Full text on the Internet Archive.
The essay that introduced the five-models framework for understanding magical practice: spirit, energy, psychological, and information models, plus a meta-model that treats them as interchangeable tools. Short, widely referenced, and free to read online.
Post framing Baphomet as a synthesized godform for contemporary practice: a deliberately built deity constructed as a counter to what the writer calls the Mundane Spell of consumer reality.
Ki'a Dragon's chaos magic podcast, running 2009 to 2019 with 23 episodes. Topics include paradigms, intent, sigils, and related practice. Archived, not ongoing.
A short beginner's guide in the Pagan Portals series, structured in two halves: theory and praxis. Covers basic chaos magic concepts and introductory exercises.
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.
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 main chaos magic subreddit. A general discussion venue covering beginner questions, technique discussions, and debate about what falls under the chaos magic umbrella.
Reddit's general occult subreddit. Broader in scope than r/chaosmagick, covering questions across traditions.
Lionel Snell's short video essays in the Ramsey Dukes voice. Philosophical discussions of magic, many filmed outdoors.
Carroll's standalone presentation of the eight-colour magic system from Liber Kaos, including the godforms assigned to each colour: Apophenia, Babalon, and the rest. A chapter-length godform reference rooted in the chaos current. Hosted on the Hermetic Library.
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.
A widely circulated 1990s chaos magic taxonomy essay distinguishing sigils, servitors, egregores, and godforms as a continuum of constructed entities. Bylined "Marik" by community convention; formal authorship not established. Hosted on Chaos Matrix.
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.
Short essay considering magical healing and the question of when intervention is appropriate. Contrasts Wiccan healing-oriented practice with a chaos-magic view on the ethics and limits of acting on another person's situation.
Peter Grey's Substack on magic, witchcraft, and nature. Grey co-founded Scarlet Imprint and writes from a sabbatic witchcraft position rather than a chaos one. Included as a contemporary occult voice that chaos practitioners read alongside their own.
A group chaos magic blog by Julian Vayne, Steve Dee, and Nikki Wyrd. Mixes field reports, technique pieces, and reflections on magical culture and practice in the contemporary British chaos scene.
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.
Crowley's commentary on the Thoth Tarot, illustrated by Frieda Harris. The canonical Thelemic tarot text and a reference point for many chaos magic decks. Full text on the Hermetic Library.
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.
Carroll and Kaybryn's chaos magic system, combining aeonic theory with a contemporary magical pantheon and ritual practice. Includes a 54 card Altar Icon Deck. Originally published 2014; significantly revised 2025 by Mandrake of Oxford, which is the current print.
Carl Abrahamsson's Substack, named for his long-running occulture journal. Magic, art, psychology, and the contemporary occult-cultural conversation.
A 1921 book by Austin Osman Spare. Full text on the Hermetic Library.
The Invisibles Paid
Morrison's comic series, published 1994 to 2000 by Vertigo. A conspiracy-occult epic whose plotting, characters, and sigil work draw directly on chaos magic. Morrison has described writing the series as itself a magical working.
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".
Joshua Wetzel's chaos magic training grimoire, written from an IOT-member position. Substantial sections on godform construction, invocation, and the eight-colour pantheon. Print-on-demand via Lulu; canonical record on Goodreads.
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.
Phil Hine's Substack, a companion to enfolding.org. Tantra, queer occulture, and chaos magic at his own pace. Mix of free and subscriber-only material.
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).
Academic and philosophical podcast hosted by Phil Ford and J. F. Martel. Topics include the weird, the occult, divination, and the limits of rational thought.
Douglas Batchelor's topic-based show on magic, the occult, and the weird. Batchelor self-identifies as a chaos magician turned necromantic ritualist; episodes mix interviews and solo treatments of practice.