What is chaos magic?

 Chaos magic, a radical and near impossible practice to completely define, has started to gain more traction amongst modern-day magicians and occultists. Emerging in the UK in the 1970s alongside the punk movement, chaos magic took a radical approach to the occult, reimagining typical magical doctrine and practice. Unlike other occult orders, chaos magicians weren’t concerned with ornate robes or hierarchical structure, but with magic and ritual in its purest form. 

Chaos magic believes the cosmos is in constant flux. Any order of reality – cognitive, perceptual, epistemological or moral – is subject to chaos. As a result, chaos magicians have created their own idiosyncratic magical systems and frequently borrow from an eclectic mixture of post-modernist and post-structuralist thought, as well as other magical traditions, religious movements, popular culture and various strands of philosophy. Eclectic in nature, pagan gods were given the same level of importance as rock stars, pop culture figures and fictional characters, and reality is seen as a field of overlapping belief systems....<<<Read More>>>...