Peter J. Carroll Quotes

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So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end up bored with themselves, bereft of any depth of inner resources, suffocated by the inhibitions that defend their own monolithic identities.

Peter J. Carroll

Life, Self, People

"Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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

Peter J. Carroll

Self, Views, Mountain

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

Peter J. Carroll

Creating, Magic, Tools

Peter J. Carroll (1992). “Liber Kaos”, p.75, Weiser Books

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

Peter J. Carroll

Laughter, Attitude, Jokes

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

Peter J. Carroll

Free Will, Claims, Asks

"The Apophenion: A Chaos Magick Paradigm". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 2008.

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

Peter J. Carroll

Responsibility, Magic, Suits

"Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick: Revised Edition". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.

Peter J. Carroll

Arbitrary, Wizards, Chaos

Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.66, Weiser Books

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Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don’t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations in psychological terminology when it implies finding meaning or pattern where none exists; and some positive ones when it implies finding something important, useful or beautiful. It thus links creativity and psychosis, genius and madness.

Peter J. Carroll

Beautiful, Creativity, Mean

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

Peter J. Carroll

Gains, Unexpected, Strange

Peter J Carroll (1992). “Liber Kaos”, p.100, Weiser Books

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The conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts; barely able to confine its attention to a single clear objective for a microsecond before secondary thoughts begin to adulterate it and provoke yet further trains of mental discourse. If you do not believe this, then attempt to confine your conscious attention to the dot at the end of this sentence without involving yourself in any other form of thinking, including thinking about the dot.

Peter J. Carroll

Believe, Thinking, Feelings

"Liber Kaos". Book by Peter J. Carroll, January 15, 1992.

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

Peter J. Carroll

Suffering, Desire, Fool

Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.87, Weiser Books

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

Peter J. Carroll

Momentum, Universe

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

Peter J. Carroll

Loyalty, Absolutes

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In Chaos Magic , beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects. To fully realize this is to face a terrible freedom in which nothing is true and everything is permitted, which is to say that everything is possible, there are no certainties , and the consequences can be ghastly.

Peter J. Carroll

Creating, Magic, Tools

Peter J. Carroll (1992). “Liber Kaos”, p.75, Weiser Books

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

Peter J. Carroll

Numbers, People, Junk

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Enforcing equality to compensate for the monstrous unfairness of nature destroys liberty.
But total liberty leads to various forms of "aristocracy" and decay.
Yet total equality leads to oppressive statism and decay.
However, equality of opportunity leads to a vibrantly chaotic and creative meritocracy.

Peter J. Carroll

Opportunity, Creative, Liberty

"Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick: Revised Edition". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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

Peter J. Carroll

Form, Liberation, Destined

Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.45, Weiser Books

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Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something hovering just below the threshold of awareness that initiated an unusual event or gave one a curious half sensed feeling that something was about to happen just before it did. The magician seeks to exploid this effect deliberately, but in doing so he must avoid doing it deliberately as it were. Conscious lust of result destroys magical effect, so trickery must be employed to annul it and to activate the subconscious.

Peter J. Carroll

Feelings, Lust, Mind

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I regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably. I regard magick, in the traditional sense, as a kind of physics that we strive to understand and render more reliable. So it all comes down to the same thing, a quest to understand and manipulate the world with a self-consistent and coherent theory .

Peter J. Carroll

Self, Magic, World

"The Apophenion : A Chaos Magick Paradigm". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 2008.

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Flat Earth theory serves well enough for a trip from the cave to the water hole and back, and a third dimension going up into the sky and down underground serves to accommodate gods and devils A lot of people still think like that, believe it or not.

Peter J. Carroll

Believe, Thinking, Sky

"The Apophenion: A Chaos Magick Paradigm". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 2008.

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Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in society disintegrate. Subculture values will proliferate to such a bewildering extent that a whole new class of professionals will arise to control them. Such a Transmutation Technology will deal in fashions, in ways of being. Lifestyle consultants will become the new priests of our civilizations. They will be the new magicians.

Peter J. Carroll

Fashion, Technology, Civilization

Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.90, Weiser Books

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Matter can be conveniently divided for descriptive purposes into space , time , mass, and energy . However we can only describe any one of these phenomena in terms of the other three. Any definitions we care to make about matter are thus tautological .

Peter J. Carroll

Space, Energy, Three

Peter J Carroll (1992). “Liber Kaos”, p.83, Weiser Books

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

Peter J. Carroll

Doubt, Facts, Interpretation

"Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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Physical processes alone will never completely explain the existence of the universe , life , and consciousness . Religious answers are just wishful thinking and wanton fabrication cast over a bottomless pit of ignorance . To explain their occult and mystical experiences , magicians are forced to develop models beyond the scope of materialistic or religious systems .

Peter J. Carroll

Religious, Ignorance, Thinking

Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.151, Weiser Books

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

Peter J. Carroll

Adversity, Mind, Body

Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.66, Weiser Books

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