Feblog 2025
Chaos Magic at 50.

As I turned 72 in January it occurred to me that Chaos Magic really began fifty years ago in a squat in insalubrious Deptford, London, where certain insights emerged during intense study, furious practice, wild experimentation, and meetings with remarkable and/or dubious people.

Chaos Magic basically said: - Make spells by any Analogical Process you like. Invoke or Evoke anything you can Imagine. Use any kind of Gnosis that works for you. Select Beliefs for their Utility. Treat Divination as the Imagination of Possibilities. Magic modifies Probability. Specify precisely what Illumination you seek.

As such it represents a radical breakaway from the Authority of Antiquity.

Most occultists except die-hard pseudo-traditionalists use Chaos Magic these days whether they acknowledge it or not.
Hundreds of thousands of copies of Liber Null & Psychonaut, Liber Kaos, and follow on books such as Psybermagick, The Apophenion, The Octavo, and EPOCH, have entered circulation in English and many major European languages; they have become the most widely quoted books in the bibliographies of all modern magic books and academic papers on contemporary magic.

Now in celebration of fifty years of Chaos Magic, herewith a link to the digital sample for This Is Chaos – Embracing the future of Chaos Magic. 

https://www.calameo.com/red-wheel_weiser-books/read/00557097424108bb33625

https://www.calameo.com/red-wheel_weiser-books/read/00557097424108bb33625

Climate & Geopolitics.

Will Trump’s America annex Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and Panama? Should we in the UK become an American state or rejoin the useless EU? (Will we even have a choice in the matter?)
How much more territory do Russia and China covet?
Can Europe defend itself?
What effects will the developing global airstrike capability bring? 
How will technology driven global warming affect the productive capacity of the various territories of the world?
Can a great world power develop on a southern continent?
Will democracy or dictatorship compete best in a rapidly overheating world?

To play with these questions I have started developing Climate Risk – the boardgame model.

Herewith the provisional semi-topological Board design: -

And herewith some provisional rule concepts: -
Players representing various power factions can govern as democracies or as dictatorships, or declare revolution (which involves missing a turn) to switch between them.

Democracies can move to the next technological level more cheaply than dictatorships, but armies, fleets, and air forces cost dictatorships less.

Democracies cannot attack each other but they can attack dictatorships. Dictatorships can attack democracies and other dictatorships.

Moving up a technological level allows a player to use larger dice in a Risk type combat protocol of 3 attack dice against 2 defence dice, with defender winning draws. Players start with D4 Tetrahedral dice for level 1 and can work up to the use of D12 Dodecahedral dice for level five. The mobility and strike range of forces also increases as the technological level increases.

Naval forces can enter already occupied sea areas without a fight if the occupier(s) do not object. Occupying a sea area brings an income representing a trade route.
However as more players reach the next technological level the global warming increases and the value of temperate, tropical, and equatorial territories decreases whilst the value of sub-arctic, arctic, Antarctic and Polar territories increases. 

The game ends when either one power faction dominates the entire world, or the entire world falls under democratic governance.