“There is no part of one’s beliefs about oneself which cannot be modified by sufficiently powerful psychological techniques. There is nothing about oneself which cannot be taken away or changed. The proper stimuli can, if correctly applied, turn communists into fascists, saints into devils, the meek into heroes, and vice-versa. There is no sovereign sanctuary within ourseles which represents our real nature. There is nobody at home in the internal fortress. Everything we cherish as our ego, everything we believe in, is just what we have cobbled together out of the accident of our birth and subsequent experiences. With drugs, brainwashing, and other techniques of extreme persuasion, we can quite readily make a man a devotee of a different ideology, the patriot of a different country, or the follower of a different religion.” PhilosophyPsychologyMagicChaosMagickChaos MagickChaos MagicPeter J Carroll Author:Peter J. Carroll
“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.” Positive ThinkingMagick2000Accomplish The ImpossibleWhy Magick Book:Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic Source: Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic
“(Q: From an outsider’s perspective, what you call “chaos magick” has a lot of rules, discipline, and order involved, and doesn’t seem very chaotic at all. What would you say to such a person?) A: I differentiate sternly between Chaos and Entropy. Only highly ordered and structured systems can display complex creative and unpredictable behaviour, and then only if they have the capacity to act with a degree of freedom and randomness. Systems which lack structure and organisation usually fail to produce anything much, they just tend to drift down the entropy gradient. This applies both to people and to organisations.” ChaosMagickChaos MagickChaos Magic Author:Peter J. Carroll
“Many scientific disciplines begin by not observing any sort of vital spark or consciousness in material events and proceed to deny that these things exist in living things, including themselves. Because consciousness does not fit into their mechanistic schemes they declare it illusory. Magicians make exactly the reverse argument. Observing consciousness in themselves and animals, they are magnanimous enough to extend it to all things to some degree—trees, amulets, planetary bodies, and all. This is a far more respectful and generous attitude than that of religions, most of whom won't even give animals a soul.” ReligionConsciousnessMagickScientismReligion Vs ScienceScientific Materialism Book:Liber Null and Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic Source: Liber Null and Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
“Do you use 'True Will' as an excuse to do nothing? Have you declared yourself enlightened? Damn your weak philosophies; a pox and a pestilence your despicable sloth and arrogance.” EnlightenmentArroganceSlothMagickHubrisTrue Will1997False Claims Book:Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic Source: Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic