CHAONIMISM

I recorded an interview for Jim Harold’s Paranormal Podcast this morning and was asked about my view of spirits and religion etc. I somehow managed to coin a new term off the cuff: Chaonimism. 

CHAONIMISM: noun: A an approach that combines the wild freedom, focus on results, and non-hierarchical view of reality inherent in Chaos Magic with a belief in spirits as organized consciousness not dependent upon belief.

Gordon White has obviously on the forefront of the fusion of Chaos Magic with Animism but I am not sure that this term has ever been used. After reading Six Ways by Aidan Watcher I would count him in this category as well. Andrieh Vitimus would possibly fall in here as well, so I think it deserves its own term.

For my part many people have commented that they felt that Strategic Sorcery is Chaos Magic. I have said that this depends on your view of Chaos Magic. If you think Scrooge Mc Duck is the same as Jupiter, or that all magic depends primarily on belief, then its definitely not. If you think that a non-neat and tidy view of reality, a freedom of technique, and a focus on streamlining is what defines Chaos Magic, them yes, it is, but lets call that Chaonomism to separate it out.

I think that one of the important distinctions between the Chaonimist and a Sorcerer who simply believes in traditional spirits is that while the Chaonimist might reject the “made up gods are the same as traditional gods” position taken by Peter Carroll, he also probably does not adhere to “the angel/demon/spirit is alive in the same way that human beings are with a clear past, likes, dislikes, and personality”. The Chaonimist is somewhere in the middle and concerned with how spirit organizes itself different levels of being, in different locations, and interfaced with the beholder.

Or maybe I am just talking smack…