PsybermagickAdvanced Ideas in Chaos Magick

Why Magick?

Irrationale

We find ourselfs incarnate in an awesomely vast post-modernist universe of accidental origin amongst semi-intelligent apes grasping for emotional gratifications, power, personal identity and answers to silly questions, whilst trading these commodities between themselves. Yet the recommended gratifications and socially-approved identities seem such dull travesties of what two whole kilograms of brain might achieve. Worse still, the apes' gods and Gods, for all their cosmic pretensions, appear as laughably-parochial anthropomorphisms, abstracted from faulty language structures, compounded by the pack-animal urge to obeisance.

Contemptuous of all the rubbish on sale, some attempt to create their own powers, gratifications, identities and explanations, and call themselfs magicians.

Hubris, then, accounts for the best of it:

But Why Not!

As belief in one's capabilities self-evidently leads to increasing capabilities, magicians consider it worthwhile to believe in their ability to accomplish the impossible, even if they only succeed at this occasionally.

Commentary

As nothing has any meaning other than that which we choose to give it, we must either invest belief and meaning in something or abandon the game and go straight to oblivion.

In selecting beliefs, we might as well go for maximum entertainment value and capability enhancement, regardless of the so-called 'facts'; for if a human really wants something, statistics count for nothing.

Personally, we attribute much of our success to a generous contempt for the apparent facts which a science education inadvertently taught us.

Spot the treble entendre.

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OURSELFS

Multimind

Some philosophers and psychologists bemoan the disintegration or fragmentation of the self in the contemporary world.

We celebrate this development.

The belief in a single self stems from religious monotheisms having only a single god. Let us throw out the baby with the bath water.

If you consider yourself an 'individual', in the sense of 'indivisible', you have not lived.

If you merely consider yourself as a single being capable of playing various roles, then you have yet to play them in extremis.

The selfs must allow each self a shot at its goals in life, if you wish to achieve any sense of fulfillment and remain sane.

Commentary

The authors apologize in advance for any irritation and confusion caused by the use of standard Chaotic grammar which avoids all concepts of 'being', and uses 'we' instead of 'I', in recognition of the legionary nature of the personal multimind.

If you still do not accept the principle of multiple selfs then consider why humans spend so much time at the temples of Venus, Luna, Bacchus and Mars, trying to escape from their workaday Solar I selfs, in pursuit of love, sex, intoxication and violent entertainments.