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Where can I learn more about your path? Chaos magick, is it? I’m interested in learning about all kinds of pools and schools of magick and I haven’t come across your practice. Mind sending me a few links, books, etc. to learn a bit more? Also what got you into practicing the specific craft that you practice?

Chaos magick can be difficult to summarize. In essence, chaos magick is way to approach magick rather than a specific system. Two resources come to mind that helped me immensely.

First, a lecture given by the father of the movement, named Peter J. Carroll, called General Considerations on the Philosophy and Practice of Magick. You can find it in three parts on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2pMNS81-hE&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL5E65F76C2B347A10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPI8mzItB58&feature=BFa&list=PL5E65F76C2B347A10&lf=results_video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNEjdqUZDHA&feature=BFa&list=PL5E65F76C2B347A10&lf=results_video

Second, check out his book Liber Null and Psychonaut. The book remains in print and can easily be found for download as a pdf. (Though complete versions can be elusive for some reason when downloading it.) Since 1987, Liber Null remains the basic primer for those wishing to learn about chaos magick.

I turned to chaos magick after my continued frustration with the sources for ceremonial magick. I find the forms and conventions of ceremonial magick highly effective, but despise the usual sources (Golden Dawn, Crowley), for being moribund in Judaic-Christian symbolism and theology. Most hermetic practices insist on a devotion to their way of doing things, often designed to inflate the egos of the magicians in charge of their particular society. Chaos magick allowed me to tap into the resources created by these magicians, without being enslaved by them.

Let me know if you would like more resources or have other questions.

What is called ‘capitalism’ is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems, and social and cultural life, operating in close co-operation with powerful states that intervene massively in the domestic economy and international society. That is dramatically true of the
United States, contrary to much illusion. The rich and privileged are no more willing to face market discipline than they have been in the past, though they consider it just fine for the general population.

“ Noam Chomsky”, – Anarchism, Marxism and Hope for the Future (via noam-chomsky)

There’s a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous wealth and a lot of others have no security.

Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)

“Article 25 [of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights] states: “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood.”

How are these principles upheld in the richest country in the world, with absolutely unparalleled advantages and no excuses for not completely satisfying them? The US has the worst record on poverty in the industrialized world – a poverty level which is twice as high as England’s. Tens of millions of people are hungry every night, including millions of children who are sufering from disease and malnutrition. In New York City 40% of children live below the poverty line, deprived of minimal conditions that offer some hope of escape from misery and destitution and violence

Noam Chomsky, How Free is the Free Market?, Resurgence, issue 173.  (via noam-chomsky)