Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
by Peter J. Carroll
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Author: Peter J. CarrollEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1987-04-01
ISBN: 0877286396
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Weiser Books
Book Reviews of Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
Book Review: You can't solve new aeon problems with old aeon thinking
Summary: 5 Stars
I've always had a problem with western magic(k), or Abrahamitic religion on drugs. People dressed up in costumes and playing at remixes of catholic rituals: it's like "I'm so cool to be doing this taboo stuff" - that's great for those who can't let go of the old hierarchical paradigm - you know, the king is powerful because he is god's symbol, or god is his - whatever. Trickle down magick. Ha. Hiding out from the inquisition drawing the secret angelic language on the walls etc, etc, I know that works out for some people, but why, if this is about god, encoded in the bible, and the secret science of pure washed clean and white holy heaven, does magick work for pagans from Iceland to South Africa, atheists (Buddhists and Taoists among them) and all sorts of people who never heard of Gematria or Metatron or doesn't feel like meditating on the layers of mythology that may or may not have been the origin of the formula they are using to get someone to sleep with them.
Well anyway, even the modernists who follow the "magick is really science" theory have something to contend with, since Quantum Physics basically excuses us from the old-school paradigms of Newton and company, who "magicians" of the last aeon base their theories on. Some people compare Carroll to some of these folks (including Crowley - just an hour spent in any of his books will prove that he was simply a fascist, monarchist, pre-modernist thinker who was just louder and more contentious than any of his contemporaries and a little bit better a writer than L.Ron Hubbard), but I think that's a sign of the inability to tell the marketing from the message.
Chaos is the coming paradigm. It allows and expands on the old, while embracing and creating the new. If you're a fundamentalist of any sort (and the huge majority of magical practitioners and authors are) Chaos magic is something that would be better left alone. It might put a hole in your security blanket, or take the color out of your Ray-Bans. In fact, there are definite procedures to help you with that, but most who have built their 'magical careers' on old-school thinking don't want to see their credentials undermined - which is why we still get determinism and Freud in school instead of Quantum physics and NLP, and why we are alone in our gas hogs instead of socializing on mag-lev trains. Status Quo is Status Quo, and that kinda sucks.
I had thought about giving the book one star, so I could get people to read the review (I often look at those first to see why the person didn't like it) - LOL - but people new to the craft, who need to be steered away from the stuff that's going to fix (should I say ruin?) their thinking processes in unhelpful concrete, may not have the sense of humor to get that contradiction until after they've touched the chaosphere -
Summary of Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
Two complete volumes in one. Liber Null contains a selection of extremely powerful rituals and exercises for committed occultists. Psychonaut is a manual comprising the theory and practice of magic aimed atthose seeking to perform group magic, or who work as shamanic priests to the community.Wicca Books
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