Liber Null & Psychonaut - Revised and Expanded Edition: The Practice of Chaos Magic - a Weiser Classic

"The essential work on the practice of chaos magic, one of the fastest growing areas of Western occultism. "The most original and probably the most important writer on Magick since Aleister Crowley."-Robert Anton Wilson, author of the Prometheus Rising "Peter Carroll has successfully broken down many of the patterns that so many magicians cling to. Liber Null and Psychonaut-written not only for students of chaos magic, but to separate the necessary from what may be the unnecessary formula of magick-covers much new territory. Carroll has taken methods from Austin Osman Spare, shamanism, paganism, and Chaos science and synthesized them into a new system of practice."-The Portal The practice of chaos magic is clearly outlined here by Peter Carroll. His approach combines methods from shamanism, paganism, and chaos science. The book includes a selection of extremely powerful rituals and exercises for committed occultists with instructions that lead the reader through new concepts and practices. This new Weiser Classics edition includes a new foreword by Ronald Hutton, author of The Triumph of the Moon"--
"Two books in one. Liber Null contains powerful rituals and exercises for committed occultists who are aware of their own beings. Psychonaut, the companion to Liber Null, is a manual comprising the theory and practice of magic, aimed at those who seek toperform group magic or who work as shamanic priests to the community. Both treatises will serve as invaluable guides to the operation of real magic, the quest for adeptship, and spiritual illumination through the Western magical path"--
“The most original and probably the most important writer on Magick since Aleister Crowley."—Robert Anton Wilson, author of the Prometheus Rising and other worksPeter Carroll’s classic work has been profound influence on the Western magical world and on the practice of chaos magick in particular. In Liber Null and Psychonaut, Carroll presents an approach to the practice of magic that draws on the foundations of shamanism and animism, as well as that found in the Greek magical papyri, the occult works of Eliphas Levi and Aleister Crowley, and the esoteric meditative practices of classical India and China. Also very much at work in the text are 20th century scientific ideas of quantum physics and chaos theory.The result is a profoundly original work of magical studies that also includes a selection of extremely powerful rituals and exercises for committed occultists with instructions that lead the reader through new concepts and practices to achieve Carroll’s definition of magic itself: the raising of the whole individual in perfect balance to the power of infinity.This Weiser Classics edition is a thoroughly revised republication of Liber Null and Psychonaut, first published by Weiser in 1987, and includes a new foreword by Ronald Hutton, a leading authority on modern witchcraft and paganism.