Peter J. Carroll Quotes

In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects.

Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.

That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.

Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents.

The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.

Only through absolute loyalty to each other can the few control the many.

Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles.

If someone claims to have free will, ask them, free from precisely what?

Magic doesn't suit everyone. Only those prepared to take full responsibility for themselves should apply.

In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.

We can only escape the bloody and ignorant nightmare of history by exploring alternatives which today look frighteningly weird.

As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.

All Philosophy is Biography

Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.

If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.

He who is doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe.

Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.

It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.

We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.

Space , time , mass, and energy originate from Chaos , have their being in Chaos, and through th agency of the aether are moved by Chaos into the multiple forms of existence.

Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to co-ordinating proliferating human variety or seeking to reduce that variety by repressive measures.

[A] competent magician should have the ability to stand still at a bus stop with closed eyes and have the entire universe disappear apart from a single blazing visualised sigil or muttered spell.

Never join a conspiracy that you could possibly betray, because if you could, someone else will.