- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Hidden Publishing (19 May 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0955523745
- ISBN-13: 978-0955523748
- Product Dimensions: 2.2 x 1.4 x 0.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 706,874 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The author has been working as a magician in Britain for over 25 years, and this book is a continuation of the distillation of huge practical experience and teaching, which was started in his previous book Kaostar and which continues apace here This is a dizzying tour of some of the lunatic outer fringes of chaos magickal technique and what chaos is actually about, including tales of sigils fired off during a vasectomy operation, why we should perform healing spells to keep former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher alive, ways of riding the magic-meme-stream using the Charlie's Angels Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.
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Francis Breakspear often wishes he was merely a convenient fiction, but while he is sometimes far more real than he thinks he should be, he has trouble with consensus reality at the best of times. He is often not sure if someone `else' is `writing him'; which gets him into all sorts of painful, and ultimately irresolvable, Cartesian gymnastics. His novel about `Evil' Black Magicians in 1990s Britain has been a work in progress for years and will perhaps see the light of day sometime in this decade, although Francis said that in the 1990s too, so don't hold your breath waiting. Francis and Dave were born in the same year and town, were educated at the same places and have been variably good friends or at each other's throats since childhood.
A social scientist, writer, inventor, amateur chemist, painter, pagan and magician, Kate Hoolu was born in France in 1971, and has dual nationality due to having one English, one French and one Danish parent. Her interests include liminal writings, radical politics, anthropology, sociology, surrealism, entheogenics, semiotics, memetics, emetics, emic-etics, film/theatre, golf, drinking vodka and lying at least once in any biography. She grumbles when labeled as a feminist, but tends to grumble at being labeled at all.
In addition to being a published academic researcher of various magical areas and writing for various websites and magazines worldwide Dave Evans is an ordained Pope of the Discordian Society and a Reverend of the Universal Life Church (both very serious non-serious religions), enjoys traveling and eats a lot of peanut butter.
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I have not read a great deal on the subject of Chaos Magic - just the usual run-of-the-mill stuff which is popular these days.
Thanks to Dave Evans (who edited 'Toaster' amongst a great deal many other great magical works it seems!) I was drawn to re-assess my understanding of the subject after reading his rather excellent book 'The History of British Magic After Crowley' which explains in detail something of what Chaos magic is about. The History of British Magic After Crowley: Kenneth Grant, Amado Crowley, Chaos Magic, Satanism, Lovecraft, the Left Hand Path, Blasphemy and Magical Morality
Thus I approached 'Toaster' from a more illuminated angle and to be quite honest found the book utterly refreshing and totally readable. It is one of those rare books where commentary upon magic is infinitely more amusing and entertaining than the process itself. In fact when it comes down to it magick does not express itself through ceremonial instruction and graded initiation. Instead it expresses itself in ways only Chaos magickians such as Francis H Breakspear really notice.
This is a great little publication from Hidden Publishing - a great publishing house with a number of excellent titles to its name. I certainly recommend 'Toaster' as a publication for anyone with a magickal disposition!
Thanks to Dave Evans (who edited 'Toaster' amongst a great deal many other great magical works it seems!) I was drawn to re-assess my understanding of the subject after reading his rather excellent book 'The History of British Magic After Crowley' which explains in detail something of what Chaos magic is about. The History of British Magic After Crowley: Kenneth Grant, Amado Crowley, Chaos Magic, Satanism, Lovecraft, the Left Hand Path, Blasphemy and Magical Morality
Thus I approached 'Toaster' from a more illuminated angle and to be quite honest found the book utterly refreshing and totally readable. It is one of those rare books where commentary upon magic is infinitely more amusing and entertaining than the process itself. In fact when it comes down to it magick does not express itself through ceremonial instruction and graded initiation. Instead it expresses itself in ways only Chaos magickians such as Francis H Breakspear really notice.
This is a great little publication from Hidden Publishing - a great publishing house with a number of excellent titles to its name. I certainly recommend 'Toaster' as a publication for anyone with a magickal disposition!
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