Psybermagick Quotes

“Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles.”
― Peter J. Carroll, PsyberMagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick

“Conspiracy theory, like causality, works fantastically well as an explanatory model but only if you use it backwards. The fact that we cannot predict much about tomorrow strongly indicates that most of the explanations we develop about how something happened yesterday have (like history in general) a high bullshit content.”
― Peter J. Carroll, Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic

“Half of the skill in magick consists of identifying probabilities worth enhancing.”
― Peter J. Carroll, Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic

“If in doubt, always attempt to force the hand of chance.”
― Peter J. Carroll, PsyberMagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick

“The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of slop marketed by those old hippies who now sell a user-friendly dilution of their original enlightenment.”
― Peter J. Carroll, Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic

“Never join a conspiracy that you could possibly betray, because if you could, someone else will.”
― Peter J. Carroll, Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic

“Always consider the qualifications of anyone who assumes or professes authority, what do they really know? Authorities on spirituality can rarely give a half coherent explanation of what they persuade us to believe they know. They achieve authority by stage management and then exploit audience suggestibility. Same old trick they have pulled for thousands of years.”
― Peter J. Carroll, PsyberMagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick

“Self-Professed Black Magicians seem universally unable to fight, fuck, or even buy their way out of wet paper bags, despite phantasizing constantly about becoming powerful psychopaths.”
― Peter J. Carroll, Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic

“Never discard the negative roots of any equation; always look at the dark side of any enlightenment.”
― Peter J. Carroll, PsyberMagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick

“As belief in one's capabilities self-evidently leads to increasing capabilities, magicians consider it worthwhile to believe in their ability to accomplish the impossible, even if they only succeed at this occasionally.”
― Peter J. Carroll, Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic

“In the transmissible mental disease of god ownership, the victim acquires the megalomaniacal delusion that a being supposedly representing all of his most desirable characteristics actually rules”
― Peter J. Carroll, PsyberMagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick

“Do you use 'True Will' as an excuse to do nothing?

Have you declared yourself enlightened?

Damn your weak philosophies; a pox and a pestilence your despicable sloth and arrogance.”
― Peter J. Carroll, Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic

“We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method; should we use any less fair method for a nation or a planet?”
― Peter J. Carroll, Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic