Kelly-Ann, what a wonderfully expressive and compelling speaker you are. This is so useful, thank you. The 6 Key Principles: 6:31 The Avoidance of Dogma 10:11 Personal Experience 11:56 Technical Excellence 15:50 De-conditioning 22:11 Diverse Approaches 23:39 Gnosis
You are very interesting,but I have only just started my journey into trying to decide what I really am. How do I decide this. I'm so lost! Any words of wisdom??
Today I attended a class on chaos magick at Alchemy Arts in Chicago and the instructor played your video. He said this English lady perfectly explains the 6 principles of chaos magick. I was like "who's the lady!" Because I just knew he would say it was you!!
@@kelly-annmaddox I discovered you yesterday and already ordered two books you talked about in your video. I think I am on the right path now. Germany says hello🙌🙌🙌
Outstanding Video. Well said. I'm 53 years old and have been a Chaos Magick practitioner since the early 80's. You have done a great job in making this video. ;)
Your ideas on magick are the best I have ever come across. You are concise, relevant and immediately understandable. Listening to you can literally allow the aspirant avoid years of less than productive information searching. For some time, I intuitively understood that the results of my work were unique to myself even if they did not coincide with traditional methodology. Your acknowledgement of this idea gives me new energy for my work. Thank you.
Finally, someone who knows! I felt Years of frustration from trying to figure out Chaos magic just melting away. Will be watching all of your videos. My journey is about to begin. Love your energy. Your style is enchanting!
Thanks so much! If you use the filter at the top of my channel page you can find everything I've done on chaos magick so far, but it's only just beginning! Can't wait to share more. Enjoy the trip! x
I have been Witching for 50 years and just found out I AM A CHAOS WITCH. Finally, a name that describes my type of Witchcraft. I love your channel and learn so much from you, always. Witches never stop learning but you are one of the best teachers I've had in all my years. Witchy blessings
Kelly-Ann. I cannot put into words how much this video has helped me. Ive only been practicing for 2 years and I have been a bit unclear on my path....until now!!. Every single thing you said really deeply resonated with me. What a great teacher you are. Thank you sooooo much ♥BB
So happy to have found your channel! I’ve felt really distant from my practice ever since the pandemic began, but the change of the season has reignited something in me that feels so good to come back to. I feel like a baby witch all over again, and I think it will take some time to regain my footing and to craft a new practice for my new self. I can tell that all of the wonderful things you’ve shared here are going to be so helpful in that process of coming home to myself. Thank you 🖤🖤
A friend of mine gave the link to this video to me as I was asking her about chaos magick. I found the video easy to understand and informative. I apreciate the time you went to to share. I learned a lot of basics and Im am convinced that this is my way to go. it really helped me make that decision. thank you so much
kelly is so spot on! i am new to all this and i feel like im sitting in university, as a freshman just absorbing everything she has to say...BUT, keeping it w/in my own, and judging dogma. when i hear things that resonate with me and just make me think 'i get it THAT makes sense" it excites me, hard to explain. so exciting....a mix of psychology, quantum pshyics, paranormal, magick, science, everything....hard to explain but i get excited when listening to these videos. thanks kelly
I'm thankful that this has already resonated with me for the past nearly 20 years since I started practicing magick. This video is so refreshing and energetic even after 6 years. Thank you
I really jive with these 6 principles, surprisingly, since I am not a witch, magician, or sorceress! But with such clear and relevant principles, you make one consider becoming one just to explore and deepen these principles. I am working on “deconstructing,” as you put it, deconstructing from YEARS AND YEARS of Catholic Christianity, a belief system that was lovely in my 20s, but has now failed me in my 40s, bringing on a huge and very painful writers block. Somehow I discovered Tarot, and discovered your excellent tutorial videos, and just stumbled upon this one today. Well, I’m hooked, to put it succinctly. Since finding Tarot I have felt my writers block slowly dissolve, and now with your elucidation of these 6 principles, I am intrigued and eager to learn more. I am learning to use Tarot to open up and deepen an eclectic spirituality, and these principles are right up my alley. Thank you for your videos. I have you subbed, and am happily anticipating what is yet to come. You are truly making a difference in my life.
I feel as though you've explained something I never knew about myself. Thank you so much for this video! I would LOVE to hear more about your experiences with chaos magic, please. And anything about your experience with sigils, also. Thank you again for giving me a new perspective! Self-discovery is always a complicated journey for me.
This is such a clear, articulate and lucid, dogma free explanation. You have really helped my thinking in my scratching at the edges of this subject. Esp your information on deconditioning, which I am struggling with. Thank you.
you do not know how friggin excited I was when I saw this video. I have been watching your videos for a while now and I am really amazed by you. I hope you do more videos about chaos magic in the future, because I am really interested in it!
This was the first of your videos that I had ever seen. I just came back to it today (2023-04-30) because I needed a video to explain Chaos Magic to someone new to the art, and your video is the best there is.
i stumbled upon this video tonight and right at a time when i needed some guidence and validation with what i practice. you have seriously given me something to consider and awakened something i havent had for a long time. thank you so much
@@simonjurado2326 It's certainly a lot easier than wording it in pure Skeptic fashion: There may be nothing that is ultimately true, and there may not be any objective reason to not behave as one wishes. A pure skeptic may live as if nothing is true and everything is permitted until they are presented with sufficient reason to believe in absolute truth and further a truth that serves as a barrier to preventing them from behaving as they will. Being a hard skeptic goes very well with chaos magick when it serves as the backdrop weltenscheung. Not ultimately believing in anything with absolute certainty and accepting the possibility that nothing may be true and all that is perceived may be a lie turns the world into a blank canvas that the magician can paint meaning onto.
Hey Kelly Ann I enjoyed the study and write with me sesh night before last and it really prompted me to come back to you older videos I love to listen to you I was craving more poptart
Aww I was wondering if you would see my comment because I went so far back. I know you are so observant I just did t know how far back someone is still able to comment on videos
I just wanted to say that my cat would not leave me alone while I listened to this she became very affectionate and excited.. We both enjoyed this so thank you! I love the openness and the idea of deconditioning.. The deconstructing of the ego. Lovely
I'm very glad you did this video. I have been practicing this way a long time without even knowing that there was a name for my type of record keeping and doing things. When I started letting go of things that were harmful to my sense of self love I noticed that many repressed memories started being available. ..not bad ones but all kinds of things I had forgotten or lost access to. Its as if pathways in my brain are now working or unlocked. Its a great feeling to let go of judgment and just feel.
I've only yet seen two of your videos but they have both been incredibly insightful and helpful. I had paused my practice due to some personal resistance and self doubt despite the clear benefit of my learning. Thank You for your generosity and openness and the helping me reopen a heavy door i was having trouble with.
hi from 2019 good speech loved it covered the basics really well your doing much better than most of the shits do for money and what you have shared has helped people thank you
I always love your insights and thoughts on all subjects spiritual and magical! Although I am a mere "witchling" (if I dare give myself that label of competence at this point), I feel akin to Chaos Magic and its approach. I believe there is high potency in being free to find your inspirations, where ever they may be. To run with what turns you on and use it to become that empowered magical being! I'm looking forward to future videos on these subjects! Much, much love dear!
Thanks so much for this, it feels like it was made personally for me - you happen to answer and address everything I was curious about! I look forward to learning more
What an intense but extremely interesting topic. I've wanted to know more about the subject, have looked it up online after hearing you refer to it before, but your explanation was much more satisfying. Looking forward to more videos on the subject. Thanks for sharing!
Kelly, you are such an amazing contribution to the young occult world. Its a rare thing to find some one your age with so much spiritual wisdom in the occult and being so grounded to top it all off. My next working will be to find a spiritual sister with your attributes. 🔯🌎🌛
This is a wonderfully accurate representation. I wasn't aware there were six key principles, and yet somehow, I found myself nodding along. "Yes," I say, " this is correct. This is natural. She must be one of the Fey to be so precise."
First off, *fantastic video* -- thank you for doing this, you do it well. For myself, I'd say the most important reason to be non-dogmatic is that dogmatism is an inflexible mental framework that cages the thinking, and by breaking down that framework -- deconstructing the self/ego -- one realizes that the universe (this word used lightly and in the most broadest sense possible), and, simultaneously, the "self/ego" is a construct and can be reconstructed after the deconstruction. This is *shapeshifting*, and shapeshifting is perhaps the oldest form of magic, as seen in the shamanistic cave paintings of "manimals". If I believe "I am" -- I am "this", I am "that", I am, I am, I am -- then I have *fixed* my-self, I have reconstituted the (false) consciousness of "being", and in so doing I have fashioned myself a fancy cage. The shapeshifter -- the sorcerer/shaman -- is one that must let go of labels and rituals and dogma (and one of the fastest paths to this is through the breaking of strictly observed taboos against certain behaviors, such as coprophagy or incest or what-have-you, but for the more timid *myself included* other small transgressions work as well, such as allowing oneself to be wrong!, which is akin to self-sacrifice, the offering of the body -- the self -- up to "The Void", etc.) in order to be able to allow change -- XAOS -- into the world (LOGOS). This violation, this invasion of the "wyrd" into the "mundane" is magick. Magick is nothing less than the deconstruction and reconstruction of reality -- it is a paradigm shift. On that same note, the process of Naming has since the dawn of language been a spiritual (read: magickal) act, and this is simply because naming something *fixes* an identity, it attaches a signifier to a signified, or rather it fixes a sign to a sign, robbing the named of its fluidity, but in so doing providing it form -- giving it shape, and identity, "being". If one thinks about it, the entirety of the principles of (Chaos) magick can be distilled down to loss of self (the ecstatic/gnostic state). Lose the dogmatism by losing the ego, and vice versa, and when one loses the ego, one arrives at a literal altered consciousness (a paradigm shift) -- losing the ego is the same as losing control, loss of SELF-CONTROL. The sorcerer is the master over symbols and symbolic systems, able to deconstruct, reconstruct, and re-deconstruct meaning -- and therefor reality -- at will.
I have recently been deconstructing my systems. I have finally decided to go my own way and do my own thing which seems to be a equally generous amount of things from a variety of different places.
I would never have particularly thought of myself as a Chaote but apparently I am closer to that than anything else. I guess taking Granny Weatherwax's Headology theory as my major system should probably have given me a clue, eh? I'm very much into interpreting things for yourself. Just because amethyst works like 'this' generally doesn't mean that's how it works for me, especially if I'm wearing other crystals as well. I often have this issue with the Wheel of the Year. I was born on Imbolc, so for -me- Imbolc is my new year. It feels right and always has. The amount of times I've been told I'm 'wrong' and that Samhain is the new year! But honestly, for me, Samhain feels like the beginning of an end for me, leading from autumn to winter. Imbolc is the looking forward to Spring, so to me it makes perfect sense that that is the start of the year. Very hard to get people to understand that just -for me- though and I don't care what anyone else is using.
I just came to channel. Thank you. This helps. With me being a new witch (embraced the path late December 2017/early January 2018... Started seriously studying in March 2018), I'm learning and unlearning so much. I'm a black woman in Illinois and I follow A LOT of different metaphysical/witchcraft/Wiccan pages and groups across pretty much all social media. And not to disrespect anyone's path, I notice that a lot of practitioners seem to hate when others try "their" style of magick. I choose to stand alone, do eclectic/solitary/chaos magick in a respectful, honorable manner. But even that may be taken as "appropriation" 😢
I've been watching for a couple years off and on but lately I've been watching much more. Maybe because I understand more now or it just resonates with me more. Either way I'm enjoying your channel and input 🙂
Well Done! I appreciate your views on Chaos Magick, being a practicing true believer for a few years now. Chaos Magick is a very freeing and eye opening (hate to call it a) system. (VERY handy for de-programming ones self...) Anyway, wonderful video. Please keep up the Great Work. Hail Eris!
Love your videos. You're very well spoken and intelligent. And if I may say respectfully, you have the most perfectly shaped lips on the planet! Lucky you-I can't get that with all the lip liner in the world!
Thank you for these posts!! A few people have now mentioned that I seem to have a chaos magic vibe about me but I've never looked into it until today. I remembered you mention it in your videos and now it's like yay! Someone I can learn from about this :D now to just be done with finals so I like study from your amazing videos 💜💜
I am enjoying learning about these principles. One of my main belief systems and constant work of shadow is the dualistic approach to pain and pleasure, as well as going deeper into death, transformation and fear. Most of my younger experience with the occult were established and fed by others fears and ideals around it, and I am only now in my Twenties really deconstructing these conditioned beliefs and reconstructing them to be what I need in that moment of time.
BittenByBookLust Sounds like you're doing a damn good job of breaking everything down and then using the raw materials to build something epic in your own image. (Great username by the way.)
This was the video that started my respect for you. Keep up the good work, or shall I say the great work. Much love for ya young ms. Cheers, love and fellowship from NYC.
I love your idea of a magical record book. Would you be able to make a video on your process and possibly show how you organize yours? I am debating using a book versus a binder. Any input would be awesome 🤔
Brilliant as always. after watching your videos I always feel like I've been sitting right there chatting with you. fun stuff really. I like the purest philosophy and accuracy you deliver. thank you , many blessings
Kelly Ann-Maddox loving your blunt honesty. I enjoy learning from witches who visit both sides of the spectrum. Left-hand and right-hand. I firmly believe that as witches, knowledge is quite important. Even if we choose not to ever act on or practice with it. Blessed be!)0(
in a way, I consider my most recent relationship a magical act. It's done now, but I was trying to challenge my preconceptions and not go by intuition as much and try to accept things I wouldn't normally accept per se. I learned a lot even if im sad its over
Jerome Alexandre Thanks. :) I'm planning some further lessons in chaos magick and then I will design a course this year which can be purchased in one go and done in one's own time. Nothing I've explained in this video is any different to what people could read in Phil Hine's book, 'Condensed Chaos', however I think people appreciate the interactive aspect when learning, so the course could be more helpful than another book on the topic because it will involve further video workshops and audio files. An exciting project for me. :) Thanks for watching!
i have always love this video in particular,...i totally agree on deconditioning,destructuring,..being reborn,,,,,,,and few other things!!! very straight to the point thanks!!!!!!!
Hello, nice to meet you. Let me introduce myself. Chaos Witcher , Dark indigo aura. Abilities discovered since childhood . Artist, channeling, channeling , summoning, necromancer, astral projection and remote viewing, mind trickster, telepathy, distant mind comunication (the shine)etc. I use a mixed combination of asian, african, american, european traditions. But lately I'm starting to thing that all those rituals are just spiritual crutches and that the only thing I need to do magick is my mind, my will and to be focused.anyway I feel so happy to have found a specimen like you. I love the color of your nails
Kelly-Ann, what a wonderfully expressive and compelling speaker you are. This is so useful, thank you.
The 6 Key Principles:
6:31 The Avoidance of Dogma
10:11 Personal Experience
11:56 Technical Excellence
15:50 De-conditioning
22:11 Diverse Approaches
23:39 Gnosis
You are very interesting,but I have only just started my journey into trying to decide what I really am. How do I decide this. I'm so lost! Any words of wisdom??
@@sherrilm.geohagan5027 Just do it, baby. Read, read, read, google, youtube, experiment, journal your process, explore and just start. Enjoy the ride!
Well detailed. Thanks for sharing!!!!
Today I attended a class on chaos magick at Alchemy Arts in Chicago and the instructor played your video. He said this English lady perfectly explains the 6 principles of chaos magick. I was like "who's the lady!" Because I just knew he would say it was you!!
I'm pleased that this video is used as a resource to help people explore chaos magick. 😍👍 Thanks for letting me know!
@@kelly-annmaddox I discovered you yesterday and already ordered two books you talked about in your video. I think I am on the right path now. Germany says hello🙌🙌🙌
Awwwww.
AHHHH! I lOVE ALCHEMY ARTS! I use to live right around the corner. Love love love that place.
Outstanding Video. Well said. I'm 53 years old and have been a Chaos Magick practitioner since the early 80's. You have done a great job in making this video. ;)
Thanks, that means a lot to me coming from someone who's been into it so long. :)
Your ideas on magick are the best I have ever come across. You are concise, relevant and immediately understandable. Listening to you can literally allow the aspirant avoid years of less than productive information searching. For some time, I intuitively understood that the results of my work were unique to myself even if they did not coincide with traditional methodology. Your acknowledgement of this idea gives me new energy for my work. Thank you.
Finally, someone who knows!
I felt Years of frustration from trying to figure out Chaos magic just melting away. Will be watching all of your videos. My journey is about to begin. Love your energy. Your style is enchanting!
I'm actually taking notes.
Thanks so much! If you use the filter at the top of my channel page you can find everything I've done on chaos magick so far, but it's only just beginning! Can't wait to share more. Enjoy the trip! x
thanks
william saltsman
I have been Witching for 50 years and just found out I AM A CHAOS WITCH. Finally, a name that describes my type of Witchcraft. I love your channel and learn so much from you, always. Witches never stop learning but you are one of the best teachers I've had in all my years. Witchy blessings
One of the best introductions to pure chaos.
Kelly-Ann. I cannot put into words how much this video has helped me. Ive only been practicing for 2 years and I have been a bit unclear on my path....until now!!. Every single thing you said really deeply resonated with me. What a great teacher you are. Thank you sooooo much ♥BB
So happy to have found your channel! I’ve felt really distant from my practice ever since the pandemic began, but the change of the season has reignited something in me that feels so good to come back to. I feel like a baby witch all over again, and I think it will take some time to regain my footing and to craft a new practice for my new self. I can tell that all of the wonderful things you’ve shared here are going to be so helpful in that process of coming home to myself. Thank you 🖤🖤
A friend of mine gave the link to this video to me as I was asking her about chaos magick. I found the video easy to understand and informative. I apreciate the time you went to to share. I learned a lot of basics and Im am convinced that this is my way to go. it really helped me make that decision. thank you so much
Awesome :) I'm so pleased that this was helpful. x
kelly is so spot on! i am new to all this and i feel like im sitting in university, as a freshman just absorbing everything she has to say...BUT, keeping it w/in my own, and judging dogma. when i hear things that resonate with me and just make me think 'i get it THAT makes sense" it excites me, hard to explain. so exciting....a mix of psychology, quantum pshyics, paranormal, magick, science, everything....hard to explain but i get excited when listening to these videos. thanks kelly
I wish I could like this video 1000 times! Kelly-Ann, you're constantly challenging my views and expanding my horizons and I love you for it!
I'm thankful that this has already resonated with me for the past nearly 20 years since I started practicing magick. This video is so refreshing and energetic even after 6 years. Thank you
I really jive with these 6 principles, surprisingly, since I am not a witch, magician, or sorceress! But with such clear and relevant principles, you make one consider becoming one just to explore and deepen these principles. I am working on “deconstructing,” as you put it, deconstructing from YEARS AND YEARS of Catholic Christianity, a belief system that was lovely in my 20s, but has now failed me in my 40s, bringing on a huge and very painful writers block. Somehow I discovered Tarot, and discovered your excellent tutorial videos, and just stumbled upon this one today. Well, I’m hooked, to put it succinctly. Since finding Tarot I have felt my writers block slowly dissolve, and now with your elucidation of these 6 principles, I am intrigued and eager to learn more. I am learning to use Tarot to open up and deepen an eclectic spirituality, and these principles are right up my alley. Thank you for your videos. I have you subbed, and am happily anticipating what is yet to come. You are truly making a difference in my life.
I feel as though you've explained something I never knew about myself. Thank you so much for this video!
I would LOVE to hear more about your experiences with chaos magic, please. And anything about your experience with sigils, also.
Thank you again for giving me a new perspective! Self-discovery is always a complicated journey for me.
This is such a clear, articulate and lucid, dogma free explanation. You have really helped my thinking in my scratching at the edges of this subject. Esp your information on deconditioning, which I am struggling with. Thank you.
In the paranormal show called The Dead Files, Amy Allen recommends a Chaos Magician to cleanse a home on many an occasion. 🎩
you do not know how friggin excited I was when I saw this video. I have been watching your videos for a while now and I am really amazed by you. I hope you do more videos about chaos magic in the future, because I am really interested in it!
This was the first of your videos that I had ever seen. I just came back to it today (2023-04-30) because I needed a video to explain Chaos Magic to someone new to the art, and your video is the best there is.
This channel is my new favorite channel. So onpoint and punk in the spirituality its crazy. I love it :)
i stumbled upon this video tonight and right at a time when i needed some guidence and validation with what i practice. you have seriously given me something to consider and awakened something i havent had for a long time. thank you so much
Nothing is true; Avoid dogmatism
Everything is Permitted; Be open minded, try new things, experiment
Everything is true and false.
@@simonjurado2326 It's certainly a lot easier than wording it in pure Skeptic fashion: There may be nothing that is ultimately true, and there may not be any objective reason to not behave as one wishes. A pure skeptic may live as if nothing is true and everything is permitted until they are presented with sufficient reason to believe in absolute truth and further a truth that serves as a barrier to preventing them from behaving as they will. Being a hard skeptic goes very well with chaos magick when it serves as the backdrop weltenscheung. Not ultimately believing in anything with absolute certainty and accepting the possibility that nothing may be true and all that is perceived may be a lie turns the world into a blank canvas that the magician can paint meaning onto.
Every truth is but a half truth.
Absolutely out of the question.
@@JohnDoe-xp6dr the moon is made of green cheese?
You are brilliant. I've identified myself as a chaos magician since I was 12 years old, and the insights you provide are excellent. Much appreciated.
This is so fascinating. I really want to learn more about Chaos Magic after watching this video.
Hey Kelly Ann I enjoyed the study and write with me sesh night before last and it really prompted me to come back to you older videos I love to listen to you I was craving more poptart
Aww I was wondering if you would see my comment because I went so far back. I know you are so observant I just did t know how far back someone is still able to comment on videos
I loved, loved, loved this. Every word pinged inside of me. Thank you for putting this together. All me best from Melbourne, Australia.
I just wanted to say that my cat would not leave me alone while I listened to this she became very affectionate and excited.. We both enjoyed this so thank you! I love the openness and the idea of deconditioning.. The deconstructing of the ego. Lovely
Kelly-Ann, you are a very expressive and compelling speaker and I may add very interesting, thank you for sharing.
Excellent video, Great explanations! You are a spectacular talker.
Thank you for checking it out. :)
Great stuff. Your intelligence and the ability to communicate your thoughts, Kelly-Ann, is almost carnally intense.
I'm very glad you did this video. I have been practicing this way a long time without even knowing that there was a name for my type of record keeping and doing things. When I started letting go of things that were harmful to my sense of self love I noticed that many repressed memories started being available. ..not bad ones but all kinds of things I had forgotten or lost access to. Its as if pathways in my brain are now working or unlocked. Its a great feeling to let go of judgment and just feel.
Thanks for this Kelly. Your eloquence, knowledge and insight is not only valuable but enviable as well. Cheers!
I've only yet seen two of your videos but they have both been incredibly insightful and helpful. I had paused my practice due to some personal resistance and self doubt despite the clear benefit of my learning. Thank You for your generosity and openness and the helping me reopen a heavy door i was having trouble with.
I listen to your videos to calm down before going to sleep☺😙
hi from 2019 good speech loved it covered the basics really well your doing much better than most of the shits do for money and what you have shared has helped people thank you
Thank you Kelly-Ann for your very helpful, clear, elucidating contribution here!
I always love your insights and thoughts on all subjects spiritual and magical! Although I am a mere "witchling" (if I dare give myself that label of competence at this point), I feel akin to Chaos Magic and its approach. I believe there is high potency in being free to find your inspirations, where ever they may be. To run with what turns you on and use it to become that empowered magical being!
I'm looking forward to future videos on these subjects!
Much, much love dear!
I am sooooooooo happy I found you!!! Thank you for loving to talk!!
I love hearing what you say!!
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Thanks so much for this, it feels like it was made personally for me - you happen to answer and address everything I was curious about! I look forward to learning more
First video of yours that ive watched and it has been so clear and helpful. Love your work
What an intense but extremely interesting topic. I've wanted to know more about the subject, have looked it up online after hearing you refer to it before, but your explanation was much more satisfying. Looking forward to more videos on the subject. Thanks for sharing!
Kelly, you are such an amazing contribution to the young occult world. Its a rare thing to find some one your age with so much spiritual wisdom in the occult and being so grounded to top it all off. My next working will be to find a spiritual sister with your attributes. 🔯🌎🌛
+Leona Rose
You are a breath of fresh air. Thanks for this.
This is a wonderfully accurate representation. I wasn't aware there were six key principles, and yet somehow, I found myself nodding along. "Yes," I say, " this is correct. This is natural. She must be one of the Fey to be so precise."
First off, *fantastic video* -- thank you for doing this, you do it well.
For myself, I'd say the most important reason to be non-dogmatic is that dogmatism is an inflexible mental framework that cages the thinking, and by breaking down that framework -- deconstructing the self/ego -- one realizes that the universe (this word used lightly and in the most broadest sense possible), and, simultaneously, the "self/ego" is a construct and can be reconstructed after the deconstruction. This is *shapeshifting*, and shapeshifting is perhaps the oldest form of magic, as seen in the shamanistic cave paintings of "manimals". If I believe "I am" -- I am "this", I am "that", I am, I am, I am -- then I have *fixed* my-self, I have reconstituted the (false) consciousness of "being", and in so doing I have fashioned myself a fancy cage. The shapeshifter -- the sorcerer/shaman -- is one that must let go of labels and rituals and dogma (and one of the fastest paths to this is through the breaking of strictly observed taboos against certain behaviors, such as coprophagy or incest or what-have-you, but for the more timid *myself included* other small transgressions work as well, such as allowing oneself to be wrong!, which is akin to self-sacrifice, the offering of the body -- the self -- up to "The Void", etc.) in order to be able to allow change -- XAOS -- into the world (LOGOS). This violation, this invasion of the "wyrd" into the "mundane" is magick. Magick is nothing less than the deconstruction and reconstruction of reality -- it is a paradigm shift. On that same note, the process of Naming has since the dawn of language been a spiritual (read: magickal) act, and this is simply because naming something *fixes* an identity, it attaches a signifier to a signified, or rather it fixes a sign to a sign, robbing the named of its fluidity, but in so doing providing it form -- giving it shape, and identity, "being".
If one thinks about it, the entirety of the principles of (Chaos) magick can be distilled down to loss of self (the ecstatic/gnostic state). Lose the dogmatism by losing the ego, and vice versa, and when one loses the ego, one arrives at a literal altered consciousness (a paradigm shift) -- losing the ego is the same as losing control, loss of SELF-CONTROL. The sorcerer is the master over symbols and symbolic systems, able to deconstruct, reconstruct, and re-deconstruct meaning -- and therefor reality -- at will.
This really helped me in beginning my journey, thanks for sharing your knowledge! Much love ❤️❤️❤️
I come back to this once in a while
I have recently been deconstructing my systems. I have finally decided to go my own way and do my own thing which seems to be a equally generous amount of things from a variety of different places.
Listening to You is kind of relaxing.
I like her energy!
I would never have particularly thought of myself as a Chaote but apparently I am closer to that than anything else. I guess taking Granny Weatherwax's Headology theory as my major system should probably have given me a clue, eh? I'm very much into interpreting things for yourself. Just because amethyst works like 'this' generally doesn't mean that's how it works for me, especially if I'm wearing other crystals as well. I often have this issue with the Wheel of the Year. I was born on Imbolc, so for -me- Imbolc is my new year. It feels right and always has. The amount of times I've been told I'm 'wrong' and that Samhain is the new year! But honestly, for me, Samhain feels like the beginning of an end for me, leading from autumn to winter. Imbolc is the looking forward to Spring, so to me it makes perfect sense that that is the start of the year. Very hard to get people to understand that just -for me- though and I don't care what anyone else is using.
I deffo feel this too, I’m an October baby
I just came to channel. Thank you. This helps. With me being a new witch (embraced the path late December 2017/early January 2018... Started seriously studying in March 2018), I'm learning and unlearning so much. I'm a black woman in Illinois and I follow A LOT of different metaphysical/witchcraft/Wiccan pages and groups across pretty much all social media. And not to disrespect anyone's path, I notice that a lot of practitioners seem to hate when others try "their" style of magick. I choose to stand alone, do eclectic/solitary/chaos magick in a respectful, honorable manner. But even that may be taken as "appropriation" 😢
FABULOUS video. Very reflective and critical introduction, really informative, thank you :)
Hi Kelly-Ann, what a very good video. Just a time in my journey where I needed your info...Thanks hun.
I've been watching for a couple years off and on but lately I've been watching much more. Maybe because I understand more now or it just resonates with me more. Either way I'm enjoying your channel and input 🙂
Well Done! I appreciate your views on Chaos Magick, being a practicing true believer for a few years now. Chaos Magick is a very freeing and eye opening (hate to call it a) system. (VERY handy for de-programming ones self...) Anyway, wonderful video. Please keep up the Great Work.
Hail Eris!
+James Catlin Thanks muchly for the encouragement, and Hail Eris indeeeedy! :D
+Kelly-Ann Maddox You are very welcome. Such a boost to the ol' Ego to hear back from such a lovely Lady. Thanx for that! lol
You articulated this really well! I look forward to watching more of your videos
everything chaos magick... please post more about anything you know ! love your perspective on it
You are VERY well spoken! I'm really excited I've stumbled upon your videos.😁
Thanks Kelly, this is a great intro to chaos magick
Great video! Choas magick is how I flow and where I feel most comfortable. I'm curious about your sigil video, sigils are my thing!
Wonderful point you made about being meticulous while recording results.
Details make or break us, after all!
Being a eclectic witch,and not knowing much about chaos magick,im finding that I am accualy doing it.Interesting that I landed in on your vid!
Thank you, hope your having a good weekend!
Love your videos. You're very well spoken and intelligent. And if I may say respectfully, you have the most perfectly shaped lips on the planet! Lucky you-I can't get that with all the lip liner in the world!
Thank you for these posts!! A few people have now mentioned that I seem to have a chaos magic vibe about me but I've never looked into it until today. I remembered you mention it in your videos and now it's like yay! Someone I can learn from about this :D now to just be done with finals so I like study from your amazing videos 💜💜
Thanks. wishing nothing but good for you.
I always wondered about Chaos magick and how it works thanks posting this I really leaned something I can use
I am enjoying learning about these principles. One of my main belief systems and constant work of shadow is the dualistic approach to pain and pleasure, as well as going deeper into death, transformation and fear. Most of my younger experience with the occult were established and fed by others fears and ideals around it, and I am only now in my Twenties really deconstructing these conditioned beliefs and reconstructing them to be what I need in that moment of time.
BittenByBookLust Sounds like you're doing a damn good job of breaking everything down and then using the raw materials to build something epic in your own image.
(Great username by the way.)
Kelly-Ann Maddox what’s your opinion on satanism?
brillant👏🏻 you are gifted both mentally and spiritualy
Wowww!! Simply... Wowww!!! I agree sooo much with the commenter, Bong Gnostic!! My my my you are brilliant with your speaking!! Very very well done!!
This was the video that started my respect for you. Keep up the good work, or shall I say the great work. Much love for ya young ms. Cheers, love and fellowship from NYC.
I love your idea of a magical record book. Would you be able to make a video on your process and possibly show how you organize yours? I am debating using a book versus a binder. Any input would be awesome 🤔
I appreciate your straight forward explanation of this idea.
Fantastic! T
Thank you. I guess I've been practicing chaos and never knew it.
Brilliant as always. after watching your videos I always feel like I've been sitting right there chatting with you. fun stuff really. I like the purest philosophy and accuracy you deliver. thank you , many blessings
I like shady backstreet Occult book shops ;-)
+Zephyr777 Makes two of us. :)
+Zephyr777 damn skippy!
I miss those
Who the shit doesn't?
How do I find one of these book stores?
Thank you so much for this video! You have really helped me a lot! I look forward to future chaos magick videos from you.
Kelly Ann-Maddox loving your blunt honesty. I enjoy learning from witches who visit both sides of the spectrum. Left-hand and right-hand. I firmly believe that as witches, knowledge is quite important. Even if we choose not to ever act on or practice with it. Blessed be!)0(
in a way, I consider my most recent relationship a magical act. It's done now, but I was trying to challenge my preconceptions and not go by intuition as much and try to accept things I wouldn't normally accept per se. I learned a lot even if im sad its over
Sounds like an interesting and potentially very healthy way to view it.. I hope your healing journey goes well x
In love with your accent!
love the side light, very arty
This is really well put together, much enjoyed !
I found the ideas put forth regarding these principles were very clear , you ought to write a book.Thanks again
Jerome Alexandre Thanks. :) I'm planning some further lessons in chaos magick and then I will design a course this year which can be purchased in one go and done in one's own time. Nothing I've explained in this video is any different to what people could read in Phil Hine's book, 'Condensed Chaos', however I think people appreciate the interactive aspect when learning, so the course could be more helpful than another book on the topic because it will involve further video workshops and audio files. An exciting project for me. :) Thanks for watching!
Awesome video! Very informative! Thank you.
I love your red lipstick!!! 😁
💋💋💋
Lucid and helpful. Thanks!
Great video, and I agree very well said. You make very good points and advice for those new to learning about magick.
I rly dont know why...
But i ATE these 30 minutes
Hey holy crap, you talk and my eyes do not glaze over with the blank stare of death. Way to go, you are good at this :)
:D
So Fabulous! Thank you for a great lesson!
Thank you for this video ❤ I found it very helpful and it gave a quite a bit more knowledge on the subject than I had before.
Wonderful video and perfectly stated. Subscribed and will share on social media. Thanks.
Fantastic, really, really enjoyed this x
i have always love this video in particular,...i totally agree on deconditioning,destructuring,..being reborn,,,,,,,and few other things!!! very straight to the point thanks!!!!!!!
Hello, nice to meet you. Let me introduce myself. Chaos Witcher , Dark indigo aura. Abilities discovered since childhood . Artist, channeling, channeling , summoning, necromancer, astral projection and remote viewing, mind trickster, telepathy, distant mind comunication (the shine)etc. I use a mixed combination of asian, african, american, european traditions. But lately I'm starting to thing that all those rituals are just spiritual crutches and that the only thing I need to do magick is my mind, my will and to be focused.anyway I feel so happy to have found a specimen like you.
I love the color of your nails
Xavier Guerrero “specimen”??? 😬
very informative and fun to listen to :)
thank you! that lipstick is a great rouge, too!
Thank you so much for your time and insight. This was tremendously helpful to me.
Very good explanation what is Chaos magic is.
Very well spoken and knowledgeable
Thank you, this was beautiful 🌸