Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic - Peter J. Carroll 2000

Heresy X New-Ageism

I could love it: —

If dolphins had as much intelligence as cats,

And stopped trying to rescue sinking pieces of wood.

If crystals actually did something useful,

Other than grease the wheels of commerce.

If the Goddess had made animals taste less good,

So I didn’t want to eat them.

If astrology could tell me anything,

Other than the trite and the obvious.

If whales could do something more impressive,

Than merely occupy a lot of space.

If corn circles came from enlightened aliens,

Rather than Wiltshire pranksters on cider.

If channellers could speak in hieroglyphics,

Instead of pop-psychological twaddle.

If sharing, caring, non-sexist men,

Could do anything useful in a crisis.

Commentary 29

The hippies of ’68 broke the dress code and the sex code, stopped a major war, and created a healthy disrespect for all forms of authority. Mysticism and music functioned as enemies of the state in those days.

The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of slop marketed by those old hippies who now sell a user-friendly dilution of their original enlightenment.

Well, we still seem to have some hardcore Chaoists left despite the sad loss of Robert Anton Wilson, and we have some new ones as well. The war against consensus reality continues.