Psyche’s List of Chaos Magick Primers

This list was first published in an information pamphlet created for the Hamilton Pagan Harvest Festival in September 2007.

The bolded items are still in print as of this date.

Read these for a taste of the philosophy surrounding chaos magick:

• S.S.O.T.B.M.E., by Lionel Snell
• The Focus of Life, by Austin Osman Spare
• The Book of Resultss, by Ray Sherwin
• T.A.Z., Hakim Bey

Chaos magick is first and foremost about achieving results, therefore, don’t merely read these, do them:

• Book 4, by Aleister Crowley
• The Book of Pleasure, by Austin Osman Spare
• Liber Null & Psychonaut, by Peter Carroll
• Visual Magick, by Jan Fries

Further reading and doing:

• Liber Kaos, by Peter Carroll
• Magick in Theory & Practice, by Aleister Crowley
• Prime Chaos, by Phil Hine
• Condensed Chaos, by Phil Hine
• Practical Sigil Magic, by Frater U.:D.:
• Thundersqueak, by Liz Angerford and Ambrose Lea
• Now That’s What I Call Chaos Magick, by Julian Vayne and Greg Humphries
• Chaos & Sorcery, by Nick Hall
• Chaos Ritual, by Steve Wilson
• Immediatism, by Hakim Bey
• Understanding Chaos Magic, by Jaq D. Hawkins
• Chaos Monkey, by Jaq D. Hawkins
• Infernal Texts, edited by Stephen Sennitt
• Postmodern Magic, by Patrick Dunn
• Quantum Psychology, by Robert Anton Wilson
• Undoing Yourself With Energized Meditation and Other Devices, by Christopher Hyatt
• Kaostar!, by Francis Breakspear

Bonus:
For Discordianism, read:

• Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her, by Malaclypse the Younger and Omar K. Ravenhurst
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

This list is by no means exhaustive, but the titles which appear on it do express many of key philosophies and practices of chaos magick.

Psyche serves as the editor for Spiral Nature, and has been published in numerous journals, including The Cauldron, PanGaia, Witches & Pagans. “Strategic Magick” appeared in Manifesting Prosperity (Megalithica, 2008).