Modernity, Magickal Cosmologies and Science: A New Cauldron for a New Age?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13i10.22Keywords:
Neo-paganism, chaoism, chaos magick, magickal cosmologiesAbstract
Chaos magic, alternatively known as chaoism, is a radical, libertarian form of magick which appears to have the most overt scientific content in terms of cosmological understanding and magickal practice.References
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Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. (1988) [1980] A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. London: Athlone.
Donald, J. (1992) “Metropolis: The City as Text” in R. Bocock and K. Thompson (eds.) Social and Cultural Forms of Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press and The Open University, 417- 470.
Eleta, P. (1997) “The Conquest of Magic over Public Space: Discovering the Face of Popular Magic in Contemporary Society”, Journal of Contemporary Religion, 12 (1): 51-67.
Foucault, M. (1986) “Of Other Spaces”, Diacritics, 16(1): 22-27. von Frassen, B. (1985) “Empiricism in the Philosophy of Science” in P. Churchland and C.A. Hooker (eds.) Images in Science. Chicago, Il.: University of Chicago Press.
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Green, D.A. (1999) “Opposites Attract: The Transformation of Uncertainty in Pagan Identity”, paper delivered to the British Sociology Association, Sociology of Religion Study Group Conference, University of Durham, 9th April, 1999.
Green, M. (1988) The Path Through The Labyrinth. Loughborough: Thoth.
Greenwood, S. (1996) “The British Occult Subculture: Beyond Good and Evil?” in J.R. Lewis (ed.) (1996) Magical Religion and Modern Witchcraft. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 277-296.
Hawkins, J. (1996) Understanding Chaos Magic. Chieveley: Capall Bann.
Hine, P. (1993) Prime Chaos. London: Chaos International.
________ (n.d.) “Pandemonaeon Magicks” at Hine’s website: http://sonic.net/fenwick/chaos/pandmag.html #intro
Houston, S. (1995) “Chaos Magic”, Gnosis 36: 54-9.
Lechte, J. (1994) Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity. London: Routledge.
Lee, D. (1997) Chaotopia! Magick & Ecstacy in the PandaemonAeon. Leeds: Attractor.
LeShan, L. (1987) The Science of the Paranormal. Wellingborough: Aquarian Press.
Lovelock, J. (1979) Gaia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mellor, P.A. and Shilling, C. (1997) Re-forming the Body: Religion, Community and Modernity. London: Sage.
Midgley, M (1992) Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth and its Meaning. London: Routledge.
Needleman, J. (1988) A Sense of the Cosmos. London: Arkana.
Roney-Dougal, S. (1993) Where Science & Magic Meet. Shaftesbury: Element.
Savage, A. (n.d.) “An Introduction to Chaos Magick” at http://www.sonic.net/fenwick/chaos/intchaos. html
Serres, M. (1983) [1969] Hermes: Literature, Science, Philosophy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Sutcliffe, R. (1996) “Left-Hand Path Ritual Magick” in G. Harvey and C. Hardman (eds.) Paganism Today. London: Thorsons: 109-137.
Templum Nigri Solis (1996) “Anno Chaos—The Pandaemonaeon” in C. Hyatt (ed.) Rebels & Devils: The Psychology of Liberation. Arizona: New Falcon: 205-7.
Watson, S. (1998) “The Neurobiology of Sorcery: Deleuze and Guattari’s Brain”, Body and Society, 4(4): 23-45.
Wilson, R.A. (1992) Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secrets of the Illuminati. Scottsdale, Arizona: New Falcon Publications.
Woodman, J. (1998) “A Means to an End? The Role of Altered States of Consciousness in Chaos Magic”, paper delivered to Shamanism in Contemporary Society conference at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 24th June, 1998.
Yob, I.M. (1992) “Religious Metaphor and Scientific Models: Grounds for Comparison”, Religious Studies, 28(4): 475-85.
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2001-02-01
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Green, D. (2001). Modernity, Magickal Cosmologies and Science: A New Cauldron for a New Age?. Pomegranate, 15(Winter), 22-35. https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13i10.22
