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

Magick I Science & Magick

The following ten chapters augment the technical procedures and general theory of magick given in our two previous books Liber Null & Psychonaut and Liber Kaos: The Psychonomicon.

STOKASTIKOS’S LAW:

“Any sufficiently advanced form of magick will appear indistinguishable from science.”¹

Commentary 4

Our language structures impose causality as a mode of perception. Causality does not rule this universe. Humans label events which they associate together frequently as causally connected, and events which they associate together only occasionally as coincidence.

Personally, we prefer to consider science as the study and engineering of highly probable coincidences, such as the tendency of apples to fall downwards when dropped from trees. We prefer to consider magick as the study and engineering of less probable coincidences, such as the tendency of trees to drop apples when we ask them to.

Everything works by magick; science represents a small domain of magick where coincidences have a relatively high probability of occurrence.

Half of the skill in magick consists of identifying probabilities worth enhancing.

A few more equations have phenomenised during the interregnum,

Shows a new member of the class of Heisenberg style uncertainty/indeterminacy relationships where effects associated with minimal entropy can propagate across large distances in three dimensional time.

^{1 Arthur C. Clark coined this statement in its obverse form.}