Liber Null & Psychonaut: The Practice of Chaos Magic (Revised and Expanded Edition)
Peter J. Carroll
(Author)
Ronald Hutton
(Foreword by)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
"The most original and probably the most important writer on Magick since Aleister Crowley."--Robert Anton Wilson, author of the Prometheus Rising and other works Peter Carroll's classic work has been profound influence on the Western magical world and on the practice of chaos magick in particular. In Liber Null and Psychonaut, Carroll presents an approach to the practice of magic that draws on the foundations of shamanism and animism, as well as that found in the Greek magical papyri, the occult works of Eliphas Levi and Aleister Crowley, and the esoteric meditative practices of classical India and China. Also very much at work in the text are 20th century scientific ideas of quantum physics and chaos theory. The result is a profoundly original work of magical studies that also includes a selection of extremely powerful rituals and exercises for committed occultists with instructions that lead the reader through new concepts and practices to achieve Carroll's definition of magic itself: the raising of the whole individual in perfect balance to the power of infinity. This Weiser Classics edition is a thoroughly revised republication of Liber Null and Psychonaut, first published by Weiser in 1987, and includes a new foreword by Ronald Hutton, a leading authority on modern witchcraft and paganism.
Product Details
Price
$18.95
$17.62
Publisher
Weiser Books
Publish Date
June 01, 2022
Pages
224
Dimensions
5.7 X 8.9 X 0.7 inches | 0.65 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781578637669
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About the Author
Peter James Carroll is a modern occultist, author, cofounder of the Illuminates of Thanateros, and practitioner of chaos magic theory.
Ronald Hutton is senior professor of history at the University of Bristol, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries, the Learned Society of Wales, and the British Academy. He is the historian on the board of trustees which runs English Heritage, and chair of the Blue Plaques panel which awards commemorative plaques to historic buildings. He has published sixteen books and eighty essays on a wide range of subjects including British history between 1400 and 1700, ancient and modern paganism in Britain, the British ritual year, and Siberian shamanism. His previous publications include Rise and Fall of Merry England, Stations of the Sun, and The Witch: A History of Fear from Ancient Times to the Present.
Reviews
"It may be suggested that there have so far been three leading theorists of modern Western magic. The first was Alphonse Louis Constant, alias Eliphas Levi, in the mid-19th century, who established that in order to work magic, it is necessary first to change oneself and ultimately to understand the universe. The second was Aleister Crowley, in the early 20th century, who drew on both Eastern and Western traditions to provide conceptual frameworks within which both aims might be achieved. The third has been Peter Carroll, in the late 20th century, who placed the same aims within an ultra-modern, or post-modern, context of cosmology and morality."--From the foreword by Ronald Hutton, author of The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft and other works
"Peter Carroll has successfully broken down many of the patterns that so many magicians cling to. Liber Null and Psychonaut--written not only for students of chaos magic, but to separate the necessary from what may be the unnecessary formula of magick--covers much new territory. Carroll has taken methods from Austin Osman Spare, shamanism, paganism, and Chaos science and synthesized them into a new system of practice."-- "The Portal"
"Peter Carroll has successfully broken down many of the patterns that so many magicians cling to. Liber Null and Psychonaut--written not only for students of chaos magic, but to separate the necessary from what may be the unnecessary formula of magick--covers much new territory. Carroll has taken methods from Austin Osman Spare, shamanism, paganism, and Chaos science and synthesized them into a new system of practice."-- "The Portal"
