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Liber Null and Pyschonaut

Liber Null and Pyschonaut

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Peter J. Carroll.  Liber Null and Pyschonaut: The Practice of Chaos Magic.  Revised and Expanded Edition.  Foreword by Ronald Hutton.  Weiser Classics series.  York Beach, ME: Weiser Books, 2022.

Two complete volumes in one. Liber Null contains a selection of extremely powerful rituals and exercises for committed occultists. Psychonaut is a manual comprising the theory and practice of magic aimed at those seeking to perform group magic, or who work as shamanic priests to the community.

Peter Carroll’s classic work, Liber Null (1978), was an important contribution to Western magical practice and is one of the defining texts of Chaos Magic.  Carroll's approach blends shamanism, animism, the PGM, Eliphas Levi, Aleister Crowley, Indian and Chinese meditation practices, quantum mechanics, and (of course) chaos theory.
 
Chaos magick is anarchistic in the sense that it abandons rules and fealty to any dogmatic truth--truth is multiple and perspectival.  Chaos magic is utilitarian in the sense of using whatever works.  The core idea is self-affirmation towards personal development of one's will.  Some have identified chaos magic as a truly postmodern practice because of its foundational eclecticism, pragmatism, and rejection of dogmatic truth.  It might even be considered as trans-religious as it proscribes no deity worship or core religious beliefs (compare with Wicca, for instance), and is essentially a system of techniques designed to bring about a gnosis or an altered state of consciousness.

First published in 1978, this Weiser Classics edition is new and revised. 

Peter J. Carroll wrote Liber Null & Psychonaut in his spare time while being a high school science teacher in the U.K.  He is past Grandmaster of the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros, Chancellor of Arcanorium College, Acting Marshall of the Knights of Chaos, and a Bard of Dobunni Grove. He maintains a personal website at specularium.org.

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EAN: 9781578637669
Published: 06/01/2022
5.75 x 9; Trade Paperback
224 Pages
Distributed by Red Wheel Weiser