Quotes from Phil Hine

One cannot shape the world without being reshaped in the process. Each gain of power requires its own sacrifice.

If "Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted," then there is no purpose or grand cosmic scheme to life beyond what we choose to impose or believe. To some this is cynicism. For the Chaos Magician, it is a breath of dizzying freedom.

Magick is a doorway through which we step into mystery, wildness, and immanence.

The Deconditioning Process is one which never ends, for even as we shake ourselves loose from limiting behaviors and beliefs, so too, we tend to form new ones.

Fear is the bodily gnosis which reinforces any emotional and cognitive patterns which serve us to hold change at bay.

Chaos Magic is not about discarding all rules and restraints, but the process of discovering the most effective guidelines and disciplines which enable you to effect change in the world.

More recently, western enthusiasts of shamanism (and anti-psychiatry) have reversed this process of labeling and asserted that people as schizophrenic, psychotic or epileptic are proto-shamans. Current trends in the study of shamanism now recognise the former position to be ethnocentric—that researchers have been judging shamanic behavior by western standards.

Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living.