System of magick based primarily on the writings of Peter Carroll (Liber Null & Psychonaut), Phil Hine (Prime Chaos, Condensed Chaos) and possibly Hakim Bey (TAZ), and also drawing some inspiration from A.O. Spare and Aleister Crowley. Chaos magick is in many ways a descendant of ceremonial magick and Thelema, with a variety of modernistic twists. The most significant is that chaos magick rejects the idea of any objective reality, and treats belief systems of all types simply as tools, to be adopted only for their temporary value in any particular working, then discarded.
As Joseph Max once said in alt.magick.chaos, “Chaos Magicians are magical agnostics. They don't know what might be absolutely true, and suspect that nothing is – and they DON’T CARE.”
Chaos Magick also makes extensive use of modern theories of physics (especially quantum mechanics), chaos mathematics and fractals, and psychology (particularly the Wilson-Leary Eight-Circuit model of consciousness), and often imports terminology from these fields. Individual writers may display levels of understanding varying from simply using “quantum” as an otherwise-meaningless adjective, all the way up to actually presenting complete mathematical or physical equations, with apparently full understanding of their meaning.
Practitioners of Chaos Magick are called Chaotes, Chaos Magicians, or Chaos Mages. They tend to refer to themselves with longer, more eclectic terms tailored to their highly individualistic beliefs or practices, such as “I’m a Celtic-shamanistic Chaos mage” or “I work in a mostly Golden Dawn system, with some Chaos leanings”.
The intersection of Chaos Magick and Neopaganism seems to be Discordianism; some people consider Discordianism to be a part of Paganism (since it involves Goddess-worship), while others consider it part of Chaos Magick (since the Goddess worshipped is one of chaos).
A few resources on Chaos Magick:
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