It was initially developed in England in the 1970s, drawing heavily from the philosophy of artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare.
Sometimes referred to as "success magic" or "results based magic", chaos magic claims to emphasize the attainment of specific results over the symbolic, ritualistic, theological or otherwise ornamental aspects of other occult traditions.
Chaos magic has been described as a union of traditional occult techniques and applied postmodernism – particularly a postmodernist skepticism concerning the existence or knowability of objective truth.
Chaos magic has been described as a union of traditional occult techniques and applied postmodernism – particularly a postmodernist skepticism concerning the existence or knowability of objective truth.
Chaos magicians subsequently treat belief as a tool, often creating their own idiosyncratic magical systems and frequently borrowing from other magical traditions, religious movements, popular culture and various strands of philosophy.
Early leading figures include Peter J. Carroll and Ray Sherwin.
Early leading figures include Peter J. Carroll and Ray Sherwin.
The truth is that no matter what score the player racks up on the machine, the player is always at the mercy of everything the ball bounces off in the machine (life).
I like the ideas and analogy of the delusion of St. Tommy trying to beat the machine that he will always be a part of, like all the rest of us other balls he is bouncing off, and trying to "outplay" to be free:-)
WHO's the real wizard then
Magic is all about illusion and trickery, I guess;-)
And no ... this isn't some lame "Jesus is the (only?) way" post, either.
Or that Satan (or some other mythical baddie) is the way either, if you are one of those paranoid Christian types reading this heretical (to you) post.
GAME FOREVER?
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