Alan Chapman's chaos magic book, built on a few core principles and practical exercises.
Chaos Current / Topic
Theory
Foundational ideas and metaphysics of practice
Miguel Conner's long-running show on gnosticism, hermeticism, Philip K. Dick, Jung, and the wider occult.
Austin Osman Spare's short sermon against hypocrisy and conventional morality.
Dr Angela Puca's YouTube channel. Academic treatment of esotericism, witchcraft, paganism, and shamanism, with interviews of practitioners including chaos magicians.
An early chaos magic primer compiled by the Lincoln Order of Neuromancers. Sigils, ritual, magical weapons, techno-shamanism, and titan-gnosis.
Peter J. Carroll on apophenia, seeing patterns in randomness, as what makes divination work. Carroll ties it to the Apophenia godform and to chaos magic's sigil and probability work.
A doctoral dissertation on how chaos magic, which presents itself as anti-authoritarian, still leans on authority and tradition, especially in sigil work and appeals to non-human agents.
Spare and Frederick Carter on automatic drawing as a magical and artistic method. The technique later became the basis of Spare's sigil work.
Erik Davis's Substack on consciousness, technology, culture, and weird California.
Cassandra Snow and Siri Vincent Plouff's show on folk and chaos magic from a queer liberation lens.
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.
Gabriel Kennedy's firsthand account of Peter Carroll's chaos magic course at Robert Anton Wilson's Maybe Logic Academy: the group practice, the exercises, and what teaching magic online was like.
An online magazine on chaos magic philosophy, with interviews with practitioners and occult news.
A chaos magic library from the 1990s web. Essays by Carroll, Hine, Frater U∴D∴, and others.
Dave Lee's personal site, with links to essays on Patreon and courses on Teachable.
An introduction to chaos magic through practical exercises: sigils, gnosis, banishing, and basic ritual. Plain language, short chapters.
Andrieh Vitimus's chaos magic podcast. Interviews and talk on technique, paradigms, and the current scene.
Jaq D. Hawkins's short essay on chaos as the creative force behind magic, not disorder. Hawkins works from dictionary definitions and a Stephen Mace quote on the physics of sorcery.
Longer-form talk by Grant Morrison at the Omega Institute on magical practice, sigils, and the writing of The Invisibles as a magical working.
Four-hour video of the Disinformation Company's 2000 counterculture conference in New York. Grant Morrison's Pop Magic! talk alongside Robert Anton Wilson, Kenneth Anger, and others.
Short video essay in which Ramsey Dukes (Lionel Snell) walks through what egregores are and how to think about them.
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.
Justin Sledge's YouTube channel on the history of magic, alchemy, and kabbalah, from an academic angle.
Leary's book laying out the eight-circuit model of consciousness.
Denis Poisson's YouTube channel. Occult book reviews, regular chaos magic content, and a bi-weekly Esoteric Saturdays segment.
James Ellis's long-running interview show on fringe philosophy, weird literature, accelerationism, and occulture, with chaos magicians among the guests.
The British section of the Illuminates of Thanateros, the chaos magic order founded in 1978. Essays, events, membership details, and a record of the section's work.
Julian Vayne's Substack. Occultism, psychedelics, and chaos magic: field reports and reflective pieces.
Back issues of Joel Biroco's occult magazine (1985 to 2002), plus material on the 1980s to early 2000s occult scene.
Crowley's table of correspondences mapping the Tree of Life to colors, herbs, gods, perfumes, and many other categories, built from Golden Dawn material and Allan Bennett's earlier tables.
Crowley's instruction in Bhakti: how to choose a deity, build a devotional practice, and use that devotion to power magical work.
Carroll's second major book. Aeonic theory, magical mathematics, and the Illuminates of Thanateros training system in detail.
Carroll's first book. Sigils, gnosis, the magical pact, and magical psychology.
Luxa Strata's podcast on magic, art, and ritual, through chaos magic and experimental audio-magick. Conversations with practitioners and crafted audio pieces.
Part III of Crowley's Magick (Liber ABA). Ritual technique in depth: banishings, invocations, making and using magical instruments, the Mass of the Phoenix, and Crowley's theory of magical energy.
Frater U∴D∴'s five models of magic: spirit, energy, psychological, and information, plus a meta-model for switching between them.
David Clifton's Substack on using chaos magic to get through the present, with history from Discordianism and Austin Osman Spare through Ramsey Dukes.
Post on building Baphomet as a godform for modern practice, as a counter to what the writer calls the Mundane Spell of consumer reality.
Ki'a Dragon's chaos magic podcast, 2009 to 2019, 23 episodes. Paradigms, intent, sigils, and related practice.
A short beginner's guide in two halves, theory and praxis. Basic chaos magic concepts and introductory exercises.
Grant Morrison's essay on pop culture, comics, rock stars, brands, and advertising as modern sigil making and egregore building.
The Discordian holy text by Greg Hill (Malaclypse the Younger) and Kerry Thornley (Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst). Later editions have a foreword by Robert Anton Wilson.
Carroll's follow-up to Liber Null and Liber Kaos. Short aphoristic chapters and exercises on chaos magic theory through cybernetics, probability, and self-modification.
Reddit's main chaos magic subreddit. Beginner questions, technique, and arguments about what counts as chaos magic.
Reddit's general occult subreddit. Broader than r/chaosmagick, with questions across traditions.
Lionel Snell's short video essays in the Ramsey Dukes voice. Philosophical discussions of magic, many filmed outdoors.
Carroll's eight-colour magic system from Liber Kaos, including the godforms for each colour: Apophenia, Babalon, and the rest.
Gordon White's podcast, 2014 to 2026. Conversations with practitioners, academics, and outliers about magic, animism, and spirit work.
Gordon White's Substack, companion to the Rune Soup podcast. Posts on practice, consciousness, and the wider weird, through 2026.
John Bruno Hare's long-running esoteric library. The chaos magic section has Carroll's Liber Null excerpts, a "Defining Chaos" essay, and related texts.
Stephen Mace applies sorcery-as-mechanics to the corporation and the state as forces that limit personal power.
A chaos magic essay sorting sigils, servitors, egregores, and godforms along a scale of made entities. Credited to "Marik" by community convention.
Peter J. Carroll's site, with essays and excerpts from Carroll's books.
Lionel Snell's essay on magic as a fourth way of seeing the world, alongside science, art, and religion.
Stephen Mace on sorcery as engineering: building servitors and a full working system based on Spare's sigils.
Hakim Bey's manifesto on ontological anarchism and temporary autonomous zones.
Erik Davis's essay that grew into the book TechGnosis. Davis follows the mystical and magical threads in information technology, from medieval memory arts to cyberspace.
Hawkins on magical healing and when it's right to step in, comparing Wiccan healing practice with a chaos magic view of acting on someone else's situation.
Peter Grey's Substack on magic, witchcraft, and nature, from a sabbatic witchcraft perspective.
A group chaos magic blog by Julian Vayne, Steve Dee, and Nikki Wyrd. Field reports, technique pieces, and writing on the British chaos scene.
Spare on the Sacred Alphabet, the Alphabet of Desire, the Death Posture, and the original sigil method.
The Book of Results Paid
The first book on chaos magic, by Ray Sherwin. A short primer on sigils built on Spare's method.
Crowley's commentary on the Thoth Tarot, illustrated by Frieda Harris.
Essay on the modern corporation as a deliberately made egregore existing across physical, data, and aetheric space.
Carroll and Kaybryn's chaos magic system: aeonic theory, a modern pantheon, and ritual practice, with a 54-card Altar Icon Deck.
Carl Abrahamsson's Substack, named for the long-running journal The Fenris Wolf. Magic, art, psychology, and occult culture.
Austin Osman Spare's book of aphorisms and drawings.
The Invisibles Paid
Grant Morrison's comic series. A conspiracy-occult story steeped in chaos magic. Morrison has described writing it as a magical working.
Michael Szul argues that AI will come from occult-minded programmers, not government labs or hackers.
Joshua Wetzel's chaos magic training grimoire, with long sections on godform construction, invocation, and the eight-colour pantheon.
Ray Sherwin on a magical working as theatre: secrecy, self-initiation, liminal gnosis, and banishing.
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.
Jason Louv, editor of Generation Hex and Thee Psychick Bible, in long-form conversation on magick, technology, and counterculture.
Phil Hine's Substack, a companion to enfolding.org. Tantra, queer occulture, and chaos magic.
UK podcast on mysticism, magic, and high strangeness, hosted by Peter C Hine and Stephen James Buckley. Long-form interviews with practitioners and writers.
Phil Ford and J. F. Martel's academic and philosophical podcast on the weird, the occult, divination, and the limits of rational thought.
Douglas Batchelor's podcast on magic, the occult, and the weird, organized by topic. Mix of interviews and solo episodes.