#Peter Carroll

[mistysblueboxstuff]

do not go gentle into that good night

[thedustycat]

“Even a slight ability to change oneself is more valuable than any power over the external universe. Metamorphosis is an exercise in willed restructuring of the mind.” ― Peter J. Carroll, Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic

Yes, this is a slice of human brain...

[heavenlymusickcorporation]

Peter Carroll's description of orange magic (i.e. what would traditionally be considered Mercurial) being powered by fear/anxiety reminds me a lot of the various posts on here about how people with unmedicated ADHD often find this to be the only way we can get ourselves to do anything.

Interestingly enough, "cerebral excitants" (i.e. the category under which most ADHD medications fall) are listed in row 12 (the magician, le bateleur, which is ruled by Mercury) in Crowley's Liber 777.

[likeitovich]

Sleeping Beauty by Julia Leigh (2011)

[gardenofhera]

There seems little point in practising magic unless you want to do a few extraordinary things with this incarnation.

-- Peter J. Carroll

[ars-theurgia]

"Many of the excitatory techniques can be used, but some with difficulty. Augury may be made by sacrifice, and men have tortured themselves for knowledge, but sex is the easiest. Erotocomatose lucidity (or sex-trance) describes a condition brought about by continually stimulating and exhausting the sexuality by any possible means until the mind enters the borderland state between consciousness and unconsciousness." - Peter J. Carroll

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[queenofallwitches]

2009: alchemical vandalism and chaos magick exploration of introduction liber null and Psychonaut as a teenager

INTRO: PSYCHOTIC BITCH

 this is scribed out of my teenage diary when I first acquired the book Liber Null and Psychonaut as a high schooler with a rebel spirit and petulant for chaos, destruction and lack of any consequence (and a high tendency for psychic events but I had atheist parts who programmed me to disbelieve in my spiritism roots).:

*** If you read, you'll judge. 

SO FUCK OFF.     22/2/09   Incessant, consistent bordering temperamental, unpredictable A BLUR: If I have to choose a collection of adjectives to describe the onset of this year, those would be my chosen few.   CHAOS.   Regardless of the rollercoaster worthy joy start + my chin is well above the ground and my heart is still beating heavily.    I DEFY ALL SCIENCE.   I SHOULDN'T BE ALIVE.   If I rewound the tick-tock clock and set it to playback the events of the past seven months, plus add a vile and disruptive little monster who cunningly asks the -7 month ago me whether she'd picture her circumstance to be drawn the way it is at current, I would of honestly told that rude and intrusive little monster that I would be a world away from here.    DEAD.    Regardless, I'm glad of the insipid destination which I've landed in.    I spent the first 44 days of this year off my head on drugs.   EMPLOYED TO SELF-DESTRUCT AT ANY AND ALL COSTS. Even while I study and work.    You want to know the truth though?   I feel like I've been reborn.    Despite my "oh-so-obvious" junkie quota being fulfilled, I am more mentally stable than I've been in a very long time.    Lie out my tarot cards and offer me a million dollars to reveal my future and I'll still tell you to fuck off. Fate isn't real. Nothing can be predetermined.    Time is interchangeable and a flexible masterpiece.    Anything is possible, this rollercoaster ride is becoming more wild by the macro-second.   The tunnel we're lurching through is poisoned with pitch-black inevitability.    I am my own god, don't try and bring me down with a kingdom of deceit.   This isn't real This isn't real This isn't REAL This isn't REAL.   ASHAMED.   Time goes to waste

Ashamed is something that I've scrunched up and thrown away into the past.

****

accidental recovery arose from this period of intentional self-annihilation. 

From the intentional 'dark night of the soul' induced psychotic to a psychonaut via the process of psycho-alchemy.

[bmtalbott]

“The personality, a mask of convenience, becomes stuck to the face. Eye becomes clouded by “I”. The human spirit becomes a trivial mess of petty identifications. The most cherished principles are the greatest lies. “ I think therefore, I am.” But what is “I”? The more you think, the more the I closes. Thinking, “I am asleep”; my I is blinded. The intellect is a sword, and its use is to prevent identification with any particular phenomenon encountered. The most powerful minds cling to the fewest fixed principles. The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.”

Peter J. Carroll, Liber Null, Liber Lux, “Liberation”

[professional-007]

Pete Carroll transitions from Seattle Seahawks coach to advisor

[diioonysus]

art aesthetics: dark acadmia

[huariqueje]

So Alice picked him up very gently * - Peter Blake , 1970.

British , b. 1932 -

Screenprint on paper , 24.5 x 18.1 cm.

*Illustrations to Through the Looking-Glass

[cmonbartender]

Through the looking glass (1902) - Peter Newell

[heavenlymusickcorporation]

Peter Carroll's eight colors of magic (Liber Kaos, 1992)

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)

[typewriter-worries]

maybe home is nothing but two arms holding you tight when you’re at your worst

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