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The Avoidance of Dogmatism.
Chaos Magicians feel entitled to change their minds, contradict themselves and come up with arguments that are alternatively plausible and implausible.
The Chaos perspective, if nothing else, encourages an eclectic approach to development, and Chaos Magicians are free to choose from any available magical system, themes from literature, television, religions, cults, parapsychology, etc.
Inhibitory states, and Excitatory states.
The simple message of Chaos Magic is that, what is fundamental to magic is the actual doing of it—
There was (and to a certain extent remains) a tendency for occultists to think of themselves as an initiated ‘elite’ compared to the rest of humanity.
Important: rituals, when silly, can be no less effective than when you keep a straight face. Magic is fun—otherwise, why do it?
Chaos Magic borrows freely from Science Fiction, Quantum Physics, and anything else its practitioners choose to.
Chaos Magic then, is not a system—it utilises systems and encourages adherents to devise their own, giving magic a truly Postmodernist flavour.
application of a simple rule (x+x2+c). The term ‘fractal’ means self-similar at any scale. When you look into a fractal form, you see variations on the overall shape of the set, no matter how much you increase the scale.
The ways in which we look into something affects the possibilities of what we will find.
When you consider that at any given moment, your consciousness can be engaged in many directions at once, the idea of ‘normal consciousness’ that we all talk about becomes something of a facade.
Pre-Chaos science approached phenomena in terms of isolating one element of an event or situation and studying it.
One of the points that Chaos Theory makes is that no model can describe something utterly accurately—we can only make approximations.
Nothing Is True, Everything is Permitted.
