In Chaos Magic , beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects. To fully realize this is to face a terrible freedom in which nothing is true and everything is permitted, which is to say that everything is possible, there are no certainties , and the consequences can be ghastly.
Peter J. CarrollAs a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.
Peter J. CarrollSome have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.
Peter J. CarrollWe can only escape the bloody and ignorant nightmare of history by exploring alternatives which today look frighteningly weird.
Peter J. CarrollAn old joke puts its thus, "when a man speaks to a god its prayer , when a god speaks to a man its schizophrenia"... Many people hear voices without suffering any of the debilitating and dysfunctional effects associated with schizophrenia, some treat these as sources of inspiration of develop religious ideas around them, others become mediums or occultists.
Peter J. Carroll