xaos:
I’m not the right person to comment with any authority, but I might say that the excitement has waned. TOPY made my eyes wide back then, but what makes people’s eyes (or minds) widen today?
Peter Carroll’s thoughts in the 90s made me work to seek understanding, made me reflect and change. Now, the simplest answer is celebrated and complexity is eschewed. Chaos Magick broke down pseudo-archaic ceremonial tosh, but some things are not simple. (Yes, my own sigil work is of this simplicity movement, but I’m returning to Chaos Magick Theory in order to go beyond Results Magick and sigils.)
Remember when adopting shifting, protean beliefs for rites was important? Who does that anymore? Is it necessary, when we can achieve vacuity through boredom and dance? I mean, I’m so postmodern, I literally maintain the ‘neither-neither’ mindset for most of my day.
Some even see Chaos Magick as ‘old hat’, and presumably seek exciting dark secrets from Victoriana and the Americas.
If TOPY return, will they shake things up? Will I be swept along for the sake of riding a wave (any wave) or will paradigms actually be challenged? Will the Spirit Model of Magick dominate the personal, Info-Energy Model? Will it be all Tiamat this, and Evocation that? But with iPads? Ov course, I’m too young to remember the 90s…
I’m a Neologist (I make words up, and I’m entranced by the new) so I’d love to know what comes after Modern Magick and after Postmodern Magick.