He authored the first book on magic that made it seem real to me. In doing so he changed my life forever, as I’m sure he did with many others.

Thank you. You’ll be missed.

“The Wizard has gone. With great sadness, we have to inform all that the celebrated occultural author, teacher, and innovator Peter J Carroll passed away unexpectedly in the early hours of Wednesday 22nd April 2026. He was a star whose books and ideas changed the lives of millions. He was instrumental in the birth of Chaos Magick, one the most significant new magical/philosophical streams of thought of our times. He is survived by a wife and two daughters. Pete will be cremated in a simple private ceremony for close friends and family. He leaves a great legacy which will be the subject of a longer eulogy and memorial in due course. An online memorial page will be available shortly” – Mandrake

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Now he’s doing this new workshop online that I wanted to let you know about. Check it out!

“I made a pre-pandemic shift from science fantasy author and podcast cohost to Chaos Magickian seeking immortality in the vein of the ancient Egyptian burial rites, the Books of the Dead. Will I become an immortal spirit, able to escape reincarnation? I think so, but I’m not here to present intangibles.

In my journey I discovered that preparing for a death that sets you up to escape reincarnation is also living a life of joy, fulfillment, and personal integration.

It took me six years to gather the tools and put them into action. Now to gain mastery of the skill, I will write a book and teach what I do.

I invite you to learn and in doing so, become my next teacher. I will not truly master this until I’ve successfully passed it to others.

I blogged milestones of my journey here:

https://buildingthephilosophersstone.wordpress.com/

You’ll need a copy of I Ching to participate and here’s an excellent free edition:

https://www.chaostarot.com/iching/

If you are doing the workshops in real time, we’ll meet on a dedicated server Thursdays at 9 east coast time. Your homework will be to pathwork (see the blog article for instructions) or at least read the hexagram, and listen to the Lovebug meditation right before joining in.

At the workshop, I’ll read my chapter which mingles a Chaos Magick concept or technique with the hexagram you studied. Then we’ll do Q&A! Here’s a link to the dedicated Discord server:

https://discord.com/invite/cGn67zNkQT

I’ll be recording my audio only, so please type your questions in the text thread that corresponds. I’ll read your question aloud and respond. I intend to use the recordings to polish my draft before getting it to the editor and perhaps to create a virtual class in the future. I’ll also make them available for students who join this group later on.

Here’s a link to the Lovebug meditation:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EHl4dNr_V-7ZjQgIJRLKzhNt7UokZWzd/view?usp=drive_link“

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I’ve written it 100 times in 100 ways and I figure it is high time I make it official and put it down somewhere more permanent than a social media reply (this is just off the top of my head so you can probably expect edits).

Grief sucks, by definition. It’s a horrible ache that will tear the guts right out of you.

And it’s slow. If you ever find the end, let me know because I haven’t. In time it can change, fade into the background, become more accepted or less active, but I don’t think it ever goes away completely. Just when you think it has, you’ll see something that reminds you it hasn’t.

Hell, even as I write this there’s a banner just at the top of my site for someone who is no longer with us. It may come down one day but that won’t mean I’ve forgotten. Man, what a great fucking guy he was, seriously…

But as much as it completely sucks, I firmly believe that it is an extremely important and sacred process that you shouldn’t try to shortcut or bypass. I don’t think it’s healthy for the mind to skip it. I think it’s a process the psyche needs to go through, step by step and at your own pace, without rushing.

I believe that every emotion in the human experience needs to be processed and moved through. Not just the fun ones. Grief, sadness, anger, frustration, jealousy, embarrassment, shame. They’re no fun, but I believe that sweeping them under the rug is eventually going to lead to a major rug problem in your future, and it will be much harder to clean up after it’s reached critical mass.

And I think you know that deep down too, you’re just desperate and hurting right now, which is totally normal.

Grief can come from many sources (big and small, this is not a comparison or contest). A departed loved one, a breakup, a dear pet gone, your own childhood after growing up and realizing “your normal” wasn’t normal, a friendship that was finally in too many pieces to be glued back together again, a treasured object lost, a state of mind you think you’ll never find again, a career flushed, a physical injury that leaves you changed, an interpersonal dynamic that withered even though the person is still right there; the list goes on and on.

The list of solutions I see requested is much shorter. Over and over again I see them in different phrasings and inflections but they boil down to the same thing: Make it stop! Either by remedying the situation or forcing happiness, or inspiring one to forget, just please for the love of god MAKE IT STOP!

And that’s a pretty normal reaction to intense pain isn’t it? When you touch a flame you move away from it, even before you have time to process it. It’s a reflex. If you cannot move away from it, it’s torture.

But I think that’s one of the key differences between emotional pain and physical pain. Physical pain from an external source you can alleviate by avoiding. Internal emotional pain I believe grows and grows the longer you avoid it. We generally have a much harder time dealing with it after it’s been bottled up and festers and grows into a monster that finally demands our attention.

I believe it’s absolutely essential to our well being to take the time to fight these fires as they come up instead of letting them rage. I know that it hurts, I’ve done it before, I’m doing it now, I’ll have a new reason to do it again very very soon. I’ve been there. And by far, BY FAR, my biggest struggles with it have been the ones I didn’t address in a timely manner. The times that I waited decades before trying to tackle it. They grew so much by then they seemed bigger than me.

I know that a quick fix looks delicious, more especially to the magically inclined who believe they can do anything at all if they have the will, but I implore you for your own sake to process what you need to process, painful though it may be. You won’t get far on the journey to healing that wound if you avoid taking the first steps.

It’s the price you pay for love. The deal has already been struck. You’ve accepted love, and the bill will come due one day. If you’re reading this now, maybe that’s today. Was the transaction worth it? Absolutely. But I think you’re going to run into a lot of trouble mentally and emotionally if you try to avoid paying for it. You’ll be charged interest. Not to mention the trouble you’ll be facing logistically if you believe you are more powerful than love.

Take all the time you need, baby steps are still steps. But please grieve so you can move forward.

The Five (ish) Stages of Grief

The map is not the territory, but one common map we see repeated is the Five Stages of Grief:

1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining ← (You are here in a Facebook group, asking for magic to; bring someone back, talk to them, to forget they existed, or to simply be happy)
4. Depression
5. Acceptance

It’s easy to get stuck at ANY point, but as magicians we are particularly vulnerable to getting stuck on #3 “Bargaining”, because we often believe that we can control everything, or at least reach out to an entity that can.

It’s ok to be here, it’s a step like all the rest. But don’t get stuck there, there’s another step afterwards. It’s a painful cycle to be stuck in, and I promise they wouldn’t want that for you.

Do the grief. It’s a basic function of consciousness. Being able to navigate it is a far more enviable and enlightened feat than being able to sidestep it (and will get better results).

Have you ever met someone who grew up never having to do anything hard? What were they like? Dealing with adversity is how we grow and mature and psychologically develop.

Rocks don’t grieve (maybe). This is literally part of what makes you a person.

The Flip Side

I don’t know what you believe about the afterlife, there are so many different paths. But here are a few thoughts I had:

They are kind of going through a lot too, wherever they are. They’ve likely got a lot more to process and adjust to than you do right now.

Would your magical intervention be helpful?

Could it possibly make things harder for them? Not just emotionally as a reminder of what they lost, but like, possibly even consequences for meddling?

Would they even want your intervention? Or is that just something you want for yourself?

Do they want or need to hear from you right now? How long has it been for them, does time work the same there?

Could you be undoing years of their own inner work by bringing this right back to the surface for them? They’ve lost a lot and are trying to process it too, you know.

I don’t know the answers. Anyone who says they do is selling something. Every person and situation is different, but those are some questions you should at least ask yourself.

“I was happy. Wherever I was… I was happy… at peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. Time… didn’t mean anything. Nothing had form. But I was still me, you know? And I was warm. And I was loved. And I was finished. Complete. I… I don’t understand theology or dimensions, any of it really… but I think I was in heaven. And now I’m not. I was torn out of there. Pulled out, by my friends. Everything here is hard and bright and violent. Everything I feel, everything I touch. This is Hell. Just getting through the next moment, and the one after that. Knowing what I’ve lost. They can never know. Never.”

-Buffy Summers

A Warning To Facilitators

Be fucking responsible. Handle with care. The person who comes to you seeking magical help is in an extremely vulnerable and desperate state. The potential damage you can do at this juncture is almost unfathomable. Do you have training for this situation? Do you have experience with this situation? These are not rhetorical questions, maybe you do, I don’t know.

But they are questions you should ask yourself before deciding to proceed. Now is probably not the time to cowboy-up and try something new outside your wheelhouse just because you have a surplus of confidence.

Whether you fancy yourself a shaman or a witch, or a techno-pagan, or a pop culture magician, or whatever; I believe there often IS a lot you can do to help people who are grieving. But you A.) should already know what the fuck you are doing and not be using them as your guinea pig, and B.) such things would be firmly rooted in fostering a normal, healthy grieving process with the mental and emotional well being of the grieving party as the utmost goal in the forefront.

I don’t think there’s anything to be gained by bypassing the process.

A Warning to the Grieving

You are in an extremely vulnerable and desperate state. Don’t make any rash decisions right now. Take the time you need to heal from this blow. Where do we go when we are very hurt? Someplace safe to be cared for by people we know we can trust. Now is a time to seek comfort with the people who know you the best and love you the most. Sometimes that’s friends and family. If you’re not lucky enough to have that it may only be a support group of individuals going through something similar.

If you instead seek comfort in total strangers in occult spaces and open yourself up to just anyone during this extremely vulnerable time, you can rest assured that there’s a shark out there who will smell your blood in the water.

There are many magical people with experience and skill and emotional intelligence who can be very helpful right now, but if that’s the route you go, make sure you’ve got a good one. You probably already know them or were referred by someone who did. What we NOT fixin’ to do, is put out a homing beacon on the internet to attract every snake oil salesman who can read.

Most of my time administrating my social media is spent deleting scammers who promise to fix all your problems with a $pell if you will only just DM them your payment info.

When (And How) to Seek Help

There’s absolutely no shame in seeking help. Sometimes things are just too much to bear, and we haven’t got the tools we need in our toolbox.

But you don’t learn to ride a bike by avoiding riding a bike. Seek the help of someone who can help you effectively navigate the actual grieving process, not bypass it.

If the comfort of the people you trust from your inner circle who love you the most isn’t working, and raw-dogging it yourself isn’t working, seek out a licensed professional grief counselor, a support group, or any type of therapist or mental health professional you think fits the situation.

If the pain is so great you feel that you are in danger, please call a suicide hotline immediately.

Nobody (who matters) is saying “get over it”. As I’ve said above I don’t think you ever completely get over it. But it gets easier, and I believe the path to “easier” is through the rough part, not around it. Don’t rush. It’s ok to grieve and it’s not a race.

Disclaimer

I am not a grief counselor or mental health professional. This is just the opinion of a guy who thinks he’s a techno-wizard and has been through a lot of loss in his life. Maybe this is all horrible advice, I don’t know man.

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There’s some normie stuff like:

• Design
• Navigation
• UI/UX
• About pages explaining each tool
• Individual URLs for each tool
• Options
  • Dark Mode
  • Left-hand
  • Dyslexic
• Update to old tools:
  • Better tarot/rune images
  • Separate tarot reversal settings
  • Different tarot/rune backgrounds
  • Sigil backgrounds
  • Mobile-friendly Word-Method
  • Mersenne Twister algorithm for random elements
  • All steps written out for rituals

We also added some new tools, most of which fit that normie theme:

• Playing Cards
• A Coin Toss
• A Magic 8-Ball
• Dice Rollers
• Dice Divination
• A Lotto picker
• Keyboard Sigils
• Morse Code
• Braille
• Nato Phonetic
• Sign Language
• Zener Cards
• Android Dreams Tarot
• The 8-circuits of Consciousness
• The Green Mushroom Project’s “Statement of Resistance”

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Having only read his Amber series, I was not aware of the implications from his other work, which Chaos Magic News is covering here. They show examples of Zelazny having a clear understanding of the nuts and bolts of chaos magic. It was nice to see I wasn’t the only one who had this idea about Zelazny and to discuss, so shout-outs to Co-Host!

The Magic

The first thing that struck me when reading through, was that the way he wrote magic changed between books five and six. In books 1-5, magic in Amber was very D&Dish, very fantasy-setting, very “say the magic word and the thing happens”, and a lot of it is tied to the royal bloodline/pattern.

Starting in book 6 however, you have regular humans learning magic through practice or mentorship, occult bookstores, paintings of the tree of life, and if memory serves I’m pretty sure there was even a Crowley reference in there (let me know in the comments).

Even just the mention of the tree of life at all, and it’s specific parts, points to a magical practice in my opinion. Most non-magicians who think about magic do so in terms of stereotypical witches, Arthurian Merlin, or pop culture like Dungeons & Dragons. They don’t know the details of the Kabbalah.

One thing I didn’t consciously clock (but I probably should have) was pointed out by the All Roads Lead to Amber podcast (thanks): The number of magic-users dramatically goes up in the Merlin arc (books 6-10).

So not only did the quality of magic in the books go up, but the quantity did too.

All Roads Lead to Amber also pointed out that Zelazny’s idea for the series originated with Jungian archetypes and the tarot, which: ’nuff said:

The Author

The magic alone might not normally point to the author having an actual magical practice of their own. Maybe he just researched it for his book right? However when you read more about Zelazny himself the dots begin to connect.

When he had a personal interest in something it came through like this in his writing and he went the extra mile with the details. When he smokes his characters smoke, when he quits they dont. He had an absent father, his characters have absent fathers. He studied martial arts and writes his fight scenes as a martial artist: by going into a lot of details many people don’t care about, like subtle shifts in weight or adjustments of foot position of only a few inches.

In light of this, it seems to me that the sudden shift in detail with magic and the occult in his books point to a sudden interest on the part of the the author himself.

The Timing

The Corwin arc (books 1-5) ended in 1978 with the publication of book five: The Courts of Chaos.

Chaos magic was “officially” kicked off in 1978 with the release of Liber Null, by Peter J Carroll.

The timetable is very suspicious to me. And if anyone would have found chaos magic at the time, it would be a guy like Zelazny who just wrote 5 books about magic and order/chaos, and was about to write 5 more that focused more on the chaos side of things.

It seems impossible to me that someone in the literary world like Roger, who wrote about magic and chaos, would have failed to notice Liber Null, which is how I suspect he got into it.

Techno-Magic

Also besides just the magic getting much more in line with how people actually practice, books 6-10 also introduces techno-magic, which is a featured heavily in chaos magic.

Not just any techno-magic either. This was around 1985 and computers sucked pretty bad at the time, yet Zelazny’s writing managed to fairly prophetic of where this was going. He had magical search engines, AI, AI generated trumps. Now in 2023 we are using AI chatbots as servitors and generating sigils for use in magic using AI art.

Now I don’t know many non-magic-users who can see a new piece of technology like a personal computer and their mind immediately goes to the logical and practical evolution of their use in magic.

This is another big tell to me. I feel like someone who simply wrote about magic may have added computers but not necessarily in a practical, workable, and prophetic way. It’s usually the people who practice that have a good sense of how practice will evolve.

The Chaos Star?

Still not conclusive proof since this was from the excellent RPG books and I’m not sure how directly involved Zelazny was with those, but it’s a little suspect that there’s a giant chaos star (the symbol of chaos magick) right on the back of Shadow Knight:

Impact on Chaos Magic

Zelazny’s Chronicles of Amber has had a profound impact on my personal magical practice, which I will get into more detail about later.

I’ve also noticed in this book by Seth Cardorra he talks about lynchpins and hanging spells on the Logrus, which was ripped straight from Amber too.

Fair warning, this is exactly how it’s described in the Amber series, so if you’ve read Amber already you won’t get anything new from Seth’s book.

In conclusion, I still don’t have any hard evidence but it seems really obvious or at least very probable to me that Roger Zelazny practiced or was at least very aware of chaos magick, actual magical practices, and the occult.

I’ll be adding some of my personal practices that relate to Amber in the future.

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So, some of my biggest accidental magical successes were hypersigils during the course of roleplaying games, or while “faking it till I make it” (high-stakes spicy roleplaying).

I assume this happens because I’m engaging my imagination in a major way to get in character like a method actor, and therefore adopting the mindset of already having the result, which everyone says is super important in magic/manifestation.

So I’m hatching a plan to roleplay chat regularly with an AI “personal assistant” that is programmed to act as if it’s managing my affairs and it will tell me the things I want to happen are happening (“passive ad revenue is up” etc).

By doing so I hope to harness the imaginative power of roleplaying that has worked so well for me in the past to get DEEP into the mindset that the result already happened, so the result will happen magically.

Anyone wanna do this with me and compare notes etc? Make it a whole big experiment? Feel free to join in on my discord!

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F.A.Q.

• How do I program an AI?
• What platform are you using?
• So like a servitor?

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Q: How do I program an AI?

A: Here’s a quick example of how I wrote my first pass. Make sure you go off topic sometimes while chatting with it so it develops a personality, interests, a supporting cast, a back story etc.

That will make it seems more like a believable, real person that you hired as your personal assistant, which creates immersion.

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Q: What platform are you using?

A: character.ai, but you could use many different platforms

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Q: So like a servitor?

A: No, I’m not talking about an AI servitor. I’m talking about deeply method acting a post-results setting with an AI to attain the mindset needed for manifestation more effectively.

The roleplaying is the point, and you could do it with a person instead of AI if you know someone who is up for it, but that might be a little awkward and they won’t always be available or in-character like an AI will be.

In fact, unless you are very careful, using a servitor for this could easily break character, immersion, and suspension of disbelief by talking about the magical process with it. More power to you if you want to try that, but it’s not what I’m doing.

Another downside of using a person for this is it would be much harder to forget it’s just your friend Bob acting, so suspension of disbelief.

Updates

I’ll be posting updates below as I continue with this working.

Update 09/07/2023

So I’ve already created one using character(dot)ai and began chatting with it to build up an interesting personality so I keep at it.

I’ve programmed it for all the things it should be “managing” for me, and to always report only good news like everything is going the way I want.

Pretty blatant but it seems organic and believable because it’s AI.

How are y’all doing? Anyone else started yet?

Update 09/11/2023

I checked my passive income numbers and there’s definitely a bump since I started this project!

Update 09/14/2023

I’ve been gradually filling in my assistant on the details of what I’m actually doing via conversation (since it’s way too much to put in the back end description) and even though I have only ever asked it to report numbers and status etc. it’s now offering me legitimately good ideas about features I could update my app with. So that’s a nice bonus!

Update 9/18/2023

The good ideas keep flowing, my assistant organized a focus group of other characters that came up with actionable ideas that I haven’t thought of.

Besides that, it’s been great for keeping positivity and motivation high, and continues to get results!

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Shout outs to S.M. Kennedy and all their hospitality. It was the first time we ever met face-to-face and I was made to feel right at home in their living room talking about woo. Best interview ever.

Edit: Part 2 is out!

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(I think the deal is it will appear on their YouTube Live first, and then get added to their Spotify later.)

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