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1953–2026 England

Peter James Carroll (8 January 1953 – 22 April 2026) was a modern occultist, author, cofounder of the Illuminates of Thanateros, and practitioner of chaos magic theory.

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WE CAN ONLY ESCAPE THE BLOODY AND IGNORANT NIGHTMARE OF HISTORY BY EXPLORING ALTERNATIVES WHICH TODAY LOOK FRIGHTENINGLY WEIRD.

PsyberMagick (1995)

The pseudoscience of astrology has no place in magick. Astrology has already died twice: once with the classical gods, and a second time after the Enlightenment. The complete failure of contemporary psychology to create anything other than a vocabulary of intellectual rubbish has encouraged astrology to resurface.

PsyberMagick (1995)

An old joke puts its thus, "when a man speaks to a god its prayer, when a god speaks to a man its schizophrenia"... Many people hear voices without suffering any of the debilitating and dysfunctional effects associated with schizophrenia, some treat these as sources of inspiration of develop religious ideas around them, others become mediums or occultists.

The Apophenion (2008)

All Philosophy is Biography

Liber Kaos (1992)

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