PsyberMagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick

This book is a magickal classic and a must read for all aspiring magicians. It is funny, sometimes offensive, witty, challenging and best of all very useful. There are only 1/2 dozen or so working magick rituals in here but they are very very powerful. And the rest is very mind expanding.It is also a Falcon Press book, which in spite of the odd negative review listed here is a stamp of quality to me. They put out consistently excellent books. The Peter Carroll CD's they have just put out are excellent as well.

Very, very funny, sometimes scattered, commentary. Although several reviewers have emphasized its unsuitability for novices (for one thing, you won't get all the jokes), the section on Abysses, read and considered early on, will save considerable trouble & provide a good antidote to solipsism.Something here to offend everyone; much that appears trivial has a sting in its tail, and yours ...

Psybermagick is Peter Carroll's greatest work. You will feel the energy of this book creating a vortex around you. This is definately not a book for the newcomer (the title alone should suggest that). If you consider yourself an advanced chaos mage its a must read. Psybermagick is first and foremost a complementary book to Libber Null and Liber Chaos. Like any Peter Carrol book it suffers from dogmatism and personal propaganda however his ideas are more approachable than his previous books. Strangely enough this book mainly talks about ideas in magic than specific techniques and approaches which I personally found appealing since it opened a new horizon for my magical adventuring.A little warning: reading this book you might attempt to use we instead of I, which is exactly what I tried. In doing so you will touch chaos with your fingertips at that very moment you might have to struggle to retain your sanity. Thankfully I survived, got everything I needed and moved on.Assume nothing.

You must absolutely read this book (but only after reading his first two). Humorously inspired by Crowley's "The Book of Lies" format with single page chapters followed by a commentary after each. Includes a couple more equations of magick (for those who are so inclined), the three dimensions of time, a section on "politicks", spell procedures to attack the semantic virus commonly known as BEING, retroactive enchantment (altering the apparent past), a section entitled Heresy with something to offend almost anyone (unless you are one the few humans who has gotten over the habit of thumb sucking), and tons more. Written in his famous "precise and laconic" style, this book covers EVERYTHING. I find myself going back to it continuously and reading a chapter or two at random while sitting on the throne.

I'm not sure why the above review puts an !alert! on New Falcon Press books, I have exactly the opposite reaction. Psybermagick is very readable, and does give what the title offers-ideas, not necessarily techniques. Chaos magick is highly invidualized, I'm not sure how a book could go much beyond the formulas and algorithms offered elsewhere-it would be purely intellectual and hypothetical, and the enthusiast should consider if they wouldnt rather enjoy learning mathematics, perhaps applied to computer graphics.As I have met a few chaos magickians, I would say that they have trouble holding onto money, and keeping things together, just like most students. Anything which will more quickly bring you through the "overwhelmed Neophyte" stage and back in touch with the "new you" is greatly to be desired.Especially if Chaos Magick is actually part of your life, this book probably is vital to you, as chaos magickians are spread out all over the world, without the same support groups as, say, Wiccans. This books helps aquiant you with some of the societal results of the Work, and gives you a look at your potential selves.It's almost a "Magick Without Tears" for Chaos Magick, in terms of the breath of understanding it imparts. To be blunt, I'm not really a practicing Chaos Magickian but I found it fascinating.