Phil Hine - "Complete Chaos International Magazine Articles"

* Update 13/12 - Corrected the down. link.

This is the the complete set of articles contributions from Phil Hine published on Chaos International Magazine. Most of these articles are signed by Phil Hine himself, other ones are signed using the pseudonyms “Kalkinath” or “Cliff Othick”.

 It contains the 24 articles listed bellow:

"Endles rest inscrutable suspense"
"The collapse of the state vector"
"Kundalini - A personnel approach"
"Morons from inner space?"
"Sodomy and spirituality"
"Evocation - A cybermagick perspective"
"Droplets" (Fiction work)
"Mania and gnosis"
"The physics of evocation"
"When egos collides"
"Stirring the cauldron of chaos"
"The destroyer of obstacles"
"How chaotic are you?"
"The cycles of chaos: desconstructing initiation"
"Possession"
"Left handed tantra"
"Evocation without sniffles"
"On the magical egregore"
"Sacred speech"
"Magic for healing: A shamanistic perspective"
"Bhairava: the Wrathful"
"Secrets of hierarchy & letter from a Luciferean"
"The magic of need"

Highly Recommended!!

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Phil Hine - An Introduction to Banishing Rituals

If I had a £1 for every person I've met over the years who's said, "oh I don't bother with banishing rituals" - and
then wondered why they started to have problems with their magic - I'd probably have, er..well enough money for a meal in a decent London restaurant. A Banishing Ritual is one of the first practical exercises that you should learn in magic (in my view, anyway), and by doing so, you can save yourself a lot of trouble later on.
Banishing is also known as Centering, which in many respects, is a more accurate term for the exercise.

So what is a Banishing Ritual?

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Tantrum Magick - Phil Hine

The following is the notes for a workshop which was held at the London Ananke conference of
Global Ritualism and Magick on the 10th April, 1999.

This workshop demonstrates some ideas which have recently come up in the work of the
Ganna Chakra – the Tantric magical group that I work in.

Basically, it starts from two related premises:

That gods & goddesses – and by extension – Guru-figures – don’t always behave in the
ways that we might expect them to, and The Ganas – the horde of hobgoblins, spooks and spirits who accompany Shiva.
There seems to me to be a general perception that ‘spiritually advanced’ beings – or if you like, people who are ‘making progress’ in their magical development - have somehow ‘conquered’ their egos – so that they appear calm, placid, and not given to outbursts of temper, irrational behaviour – that they have ‘overcome’ their passions – or have worked with them to the extent that they can ‘control’ or ‘subdue’ them – at least in public or everyday social situations.

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Magical Use Of Voice - Phil Hine

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On Cursing - Phil Hine

Phil Hine - A presentation made at UKAOS 1992

People tend to view Cursing in the same way that they view masturbation. There's a hell of a lot of it goes on, but most people aren't going to admit to it, much less that they're any good at it, or have made a careful study of it. Another common factor between the two practices is that those individuals who come to rely too heavily on either, are generally awarded the same appellation

.... Wankers!

But what, after all, constitutes a Curse?

This (2 fingers) is a curse - meaning, 'may your wife be unfaithful to you'.
"Fuck Off and Die" - a curse
"Have you heard about so & so - they've got AIDS" - a very powerful curse indeed.

In popular Occultism, Cursing is pretty definitely seen as 'Black Magick', except of course when you can justify your reasons for doing it - like the Wiccans who once attempted to Magically attack me because I was plugging 'the Left-Hand Way' in Pagan News

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Ovenready Chaos - Phil Hine

What is Magick? Several definitions float into my mind, but none of them do it full justice. The world is magical; we might get a sense of this after climbing a mountain and looking down upon the landscape below, or in the quiet satisfaction at the end of one of ‘those days’ when everything has gone right for us. Magick is a doorway through which we step into mystery, wildness, and immanence.

We live in a world subject to extensive and seemingly, all embracing systems of social & personal control that continually feed us the lie that we are each alone, helpless, and powerless to effect change. Magick is about change. Changing your circumstances so that you strive to live according to a developing sense of personal responsibility; that you can effect change around you if you choose; that we are not helpless cogs in some clockwork universe. All acts of personal/collective liberation are magical acts. Magick leads us into exhiliration and ecstacy; into insight and understanding; into changing ourselves and the world in which we participate.

Through magick we may come to explore the possibilities of freedom.

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Permutations - Phil Hine

Permutations is a collection of four essays which I feel throws up different perspectives - a ‘window’ if you like - into the diverse forces & feelings which have shaped my approach to magical work and concepts. Readers will discern a strong autobiographical element within these pages. This is a deliberate style, as I have found that the act of unveiling how magic has affected me personally, is a key to communicating the often
abstract ideas which relate to the ‘hidden’ faces of magic - which are often difficult to carry across in bite-sized chunks.
Simply saying “this is how such-and-such should be done” and leaving it at that - is not an approach which works for me. The magical power of ‘concealment’ is well-known. The power of revealing oneself, warts ‘n’ all, is less well-attested.

These four essays reflect different areas of my magical work which I have found, for various reasons, to be at times, problematic. Writing is for me, both an earthing and an exorcism. This collection is not quite ‘practical’ in the same way that my other books are, but nonetheless, I feel that the reader may find some useful points herein, which cross all boundaries of magical activity.

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Counting Coup - Phil Hine

The growth of Chaos Magic has seen a rise of interest inactively researching into Magical Combat techniques and theory. However, I am not proposing that people take out their frustrations on each other (for slights imagined and otherwise) to a deadly extent, but to propose that Magical Combat can be used as a training exercise.
True instances of Magical Combat are rare indeed. In fifteen years of active magical practice I have only been attacked by other magicians three times - and in each instance, was able to do something about it. I daresay there have been more attempts, but seeing as I haven't noticed them, they've either been extremely subtle or, as is more likely, have failed utterly.

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Cacodemonic Copulations - Phil Hine

The subject of Incubi and Succubi and their visitations is rarely dealt with by modern magical writers, although they have been used time and time again by various hacks of the horror genre. Sex-Demons have been banished - either explained away as hallucination or junked as a product of Christian mastubatory mythos. Any occultists this side of the twentieth-century that do mention them, usually do so in the context of
warning against traffick with such entities, believing that the dangers of loss of vitality or obsession is the inevitable result.

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The Pseudonomicon - Phil Hine

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Bitter Venoms: The Magical Worlds of William Burroughs - Phil Hine

Introduction:

I first encountered the writings of William Burroughs at the age of fifteen when a friend at school lent me a copy of Exterminator. The book opened up avenues of experience ("kicks") that I had only half-suspected were possible: the twilight worlds of drugs, astronauts, wild boys and twisted visions. I read Burroughs avidly, twisting his worlds together with my own half- formed visions and fantasies. at first merely flashing out my daydreams with his landscapes, and later entering into them.
I’m greatly indebted to Burroughs writing for enabling me to discover the "nightmare culture" of sexuality, drugs and magick. Though I was first turned on to magick through the drawings of Austin Osman Spare, I realised that it was the work of Burroughs that awoke in me the desire to visit alien landscapes, and
cross into the various "zones" forbidden by society in general. Anyhow, enough of this preample. This is the first in a series of articles looking at some of the magical themes which crop up throughout the writings of William Burroughs.

Phil Hine
"Bitter Venoms", in A Taste of Things to Come, Revelations 23 Press, 1991

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Condensed Chaos - Phil Hine

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Prime Chaos - Phil Hine

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Rites that go Wrong - Phil Hine

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Techniques of Modern Shamanism - Phil Hine (3 vol.)

Vol 1: Walking Between The Worlds
Vol 2: Two Worlds and Inbetween
Vol 3: Touched by Fire

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