Texts and History: Journal of Philological, Historical and Cultural Texts and History Studies
2021
N. E. Mazalova
This study deals with archaic ideas associated with Russian ritual specialists (sorcerers) in Karelia, their initiation, and the sources of their sacred knowledge and power. The author identifies the following signs of different types of “the knowledgeable”: strength, knowledge, the ability to enter altered states of consciousness, as well as to find a source of strength. Particular attention...
December 16, 2019
Bernd-Christian Otto
3 citations
By 'stochastic' Hines apparently means non-deterministic: a system in which its current state does not determine its next state.14 The metaphor of the 'Aeon' has been a common topos in 'learned magic' discourse ever since Aleister Crowley: see Bogdan 2012.15 See also Hine 1991, who states that if the 'Quantum revolution dealt a death blow to the dualistic perception of the universe, Chaos...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
January 11, 2019
Tf. Varley, Robin Carhart-Harris, Leor Roseman et al.
8 citations
preprint
Abstract Psychedelic drugs, such as psilocybin and LSD, represent unique tools for researchers in-vestigating the neural origins of consciousness. Currently, the most compelling theories of how psychedelics exert their effects is by increasing the complexity of brain activity and moving the system towards a critical point between order and disorder, creating more dynamic and complex patterns of...
Journal of Musicological Research
January 2, 2018
Daniel Siepmann
4 citations
This article bridges two underground music networks that relied on inventive communications tactics to both obscure their movement and reach new followers: Genesis P-Orridge’s chaos magick sect Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, with its artistic mouthpiece Psychic TV (c. 1981–1991), and the Internet-based electronic music micro-genre witch house (c. 2008–2013). Though outwardly synergetic in their...
Intersections conference journal
September 7, 2016
Victor Cirone
This paper considers the aesthetic and political implications of Hakim Bey’s (also known as Peter Lamborn Wilson) Immediatist project. The paper begins with a discussion of the cosmogonic notions of Chaos and nothing that Bey adopts in his work and explores the ways in which these notions are foundational to his concept of Ontological Anarchy. It is then explained how, through indiscriminately...
December 5, 2014
Colin Duggan
Chaos Magick - 1
International Journal for the Study of New Religions
August 14, 2011
Carole M. Cusack
Discordianism, founded in 1957 and generally regarded as a “parody religion,” has only recently received scholarly consideration as a valid religious expression within modern Paganism (Cusack 2010). Yet ritual practice within Discordianism remains largely unexamined; Hugh Urban’s brief discussion of Discordian magical workings as a sub-category of Chaos Magic is the extent of academic...
Oxford University Press eBooks
February 2, 2011
Nevill Drury
Abstract This chapter profiles three notable twentieth-century occultists—Dion Fortune, Austin Osman Spare, and Rosaleen Norton. All three can be regarded as key bridging figures linking earlier generations of magical practitioners with the contemporary neopagan movement. Dion Fortune (1890–1946) studied psychoanalysis at the University of London. Through her friend Maiya Curtis-Webb, Violet...