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Post by darlingstrawberry on Aug 5, 2011 0:36:02 GMT -5
Uh... As the title says, what is chaos magick?
I'm generally wary of the word 'chaos', so I'm curious.
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Post by Lady Motevia on Aug 5, 2011 12:15:16 GMT -5
I've been trying to find information about this, but it's all very complicated. From what I've gathered, it seems that Chaos magick doesn't live to karma or dogma or anything like that in terms of how to perform magick. Where the Wiccan Rede states "an ye harm none, do as ye wilt", practitioners of chaos magick do not follow anything like this. Here's a link to something I've found on the subject: www.chaosmatrix.org/library/chaos/texts/sher2.html. I personally don't understand all of it. |
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Post by darlingstrawberry on Aug 5, 2011 13:20:41 GMT -5
The link didn't work...  But it looked like the url said 'chaosmatrix'? That faintly reminds me of something an old acquaintance of mine talked about. A matrix, in the mathematical world, is a box of sorts, separated into squares with numerical values or information. (Kind of. I think you get more of that in calculus, which I haven't gotten yet.) From what I remember hearing from this 'acquaintance', there's a chart/matrix type thing explaining the types of 'chaos' and not-chaos (for lack of a better word). There was things along the lines of 'chaotic', 'neutral-chaotic', things like that. I have no idea if that has ANYTHING to do with chaos magick, but if it does, it's a little out there. Then again, said person was a very negative influence, and maybe a black sheep of the idea... Who knows. I'll have to dig around.  |
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Post by darlingstrawberry on Aug 5, 2011 13:25:40 GMT -5
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Post by Lady Motevia on Aug 5, 2011 16:32:26 GMT -5
Yea the link I tried to post was one of those listed on the one you found. If you click on "Chaos, Chaos is the field which underlies all things" and then "Chaos Magick, Ray Sherwin's take on chaos, magickal groups, and teaching chaos", you'll find what I was trying to post. It gets really confusing!
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Post by Lady Motevia on Aug 5, 2011 16:36:20 GMT -5
What you described sounds like Dungeons and Dragons. I know what your acquaintance was talking about with math and matrixes. They're actually very fun to work with. In D&D, there's chaotic neutral, chaotic good, and chaotic evil. Chaos is the lack of rules. If you're chaotic good, for example, you follow your own morality while still holding on to the "good" of all things. If you're chaotic neutral, however, you hold onto values that are neither good nor evil. Chaos in itself is neither good nor bad. It just is the lack of rules and adhering to your own beliefs instead of relying on karma or dogma to tell you what is right or wrong. Does that make sense? I had a friend once who practiced chaos magick and that was how she explained it to me.
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Post by darlingstrawberry on Aug 5, 2011 17:04:04 GMT -5
Ah, see, I know nothing about Dungeons and Dragons. But I read on the site, and it's most definitely interesting! And most definitely a bit confusing... Handy site though!  |
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