Peter J. Carroll

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Peter James Carroll (born 8 January 1953, Patching, England) is a modern occultist, author, co-founder of the Illuminates of Thanateros, and chaos magician.^[1]

1 Biography
2 Quotes
3 Bibliography
- 3.1 Upcoming
4 References
5 External links
- 5.1 Interviews
- 5.2 Articles

[edit] Biography

Although he is commonly credited with coinage of the idea and term of chaos magic, Carroll would be more accurately portrayed as a leading figure of the part of the occult scene that evolved into chaos magic.^{[citations needed]}

Carroll travelled extensively in India, Tibet and Australia. Through his books and the Illuminates of Thanateros, he quickly became one of the best-known European occultists.^{[citation needed]}

In 1995, Carroll announced his desire to step down from the "roles of magus and pontiff of chaos" with the closing statement: "the author chooses to maintain an antique and idiosyncratic code of chivalry, honour, and heroism in an era largely devoid of such things...and values uniqueness in an era of mass production."^[2]

In 2005, he appeared as a chaos magic instructor at Robert Anton Wilson's Maybe Logic Academy^[3] and announced another book on the subject.^[4]

Carroll writes columns for Ian Read's Chaos International magazine under the names Peter Carroll and 'Stokastikos'.^[5]

[edit] Quotes

"Everything works by magick; science represents a small domain of magick where coincidences have a relatively high probability of occurrence." - Peter Carroll, PsyberMagick

[edit] Bibliography

Liber Null. (1978) and Psychonaut. (1982) (published in one volume in 1987) ISBN 0-87728-639-6
Liber Kaos. (1992) ISBN 0-87728-742-2
PsyberMagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick. (1995) ISBN 1-56184-092-0