This term might be new to you, but no worries. You do not have to commit to an order, a cult or any belief system! You rather get to play with any belief system you fancy. No celibacy required either *wink*.

Chaos Monastics is a practice proposed by Peter Carroll, where magicians dedicate a specific amount of time to do more intense and structured magical practice and journey within, while still being part of the everyday world. Steve Dee also recently published a book “Chaos Monks” describing more in depth how to combine the individualistic path of the chaotes with a monastic regime.

This practice has the aim to increase our commitment to the Great Work of Magick, improve our skills, or work on a greater magical project that requires more attention.

You can do this out of the comfort or discomfort of your own home or even while traveling. The world is your monastery, your playground for experimentation. In fact for some of these experiments, you will have to leave your hermits cave and go peopleling.

Joining a monastery usually has a few benefits: a community and social structure that supports the rigor of the spiritual pursuit while reclusion from the everyday world limits distractions.

We will attempt something different. We gather as a virtual/astral community dedicating ourselves for 12 weeks from Equinox to Solstice to more intentional magical practice supporting each other to go deeper with our workings and experiments.

Each of us creates an individual practice structure for ourselves and puts it on to a monastic oath to be spoken in front of the Crew. The more you commit to this practice and stick to your oath, the more empowered you will come out of this journey. The consequences of breaking your oath you have to deal with your own Inner Authority. Not even the Captain may hold you accountable here.

This is not your grandma’s spiritual program or your typical New Age fluff. The inspiration for this program comes from the discordian fringes and my own obsession to build a Chaos Monastery somewhere and live a life dedicated to the mysteries of Chaos.

No worries though, you do not need to be a full-fledged chaos magician to benefit from this practice and this expedition. This program can be an initation into Chaos Magick. Monasticism is basically about the intensity of commitment you want to explore your own territory with.

But be mindful: You buy the ticket and get on the ship, you need to stick out the trip.

No backsies.

Hard to define as it is an explorative edge for me as well.

With this word I mean the art of exploring mind, consciousness, nervous system programming, neuro hacking, and using magick to alter our experience of reality by navigating with a Map and a Compass.

The Map we use is based on the 8 Circuits of Conscioussness by Timothy Leary, as presented by Robert Anton Wilson in his book “Prometheus Rising” and Antero Alli in his books “Angel Tech” and “The 8 Circuit Brain” and given a twist on my own.

The aim of the Game on this Expedition is to download this map for your navigational use and adapt it to your needs based on the direct experience of the experiments we conduct on this journey.

We craft the Compass by merging this Map with the 8 Colored System of Magick presented by Peter Carroll.

I have assigned a Color of Magick for each Circuit as an approach to do the work of recalibrating each circuit to find the perfect balance to Surf the Waves of Chaos. Your personal color assignments may vary. You can craft the compass differently to what I will present, and make it work for you.

As we progress through the map, I will conjure each of the according colors, infusing our journey with an influx of the magical quality of each color.

Once you make these tools your own, they can serve you to assess where you are out of balance and with what kind of magicks you can work to regain a functioning balance. It can serve you as a tool for the integration of psychedelic experiences or wyrd and woo woo encounters.

For me Chaos Magick is a method of Neuro-Hacking. With Neuro-Hacking I mean tampering with the configuration of your Central Nervous Sytems. This can be done by defusing mal-adaptive programs, unlearning and re-learning, de-conditioning and re-conditioning and by changing the basic imprints.

This can be done with an understanding of how the nervous system programs developed, what needs they are trying to meet and apply different tools and hacks to shift the strategy for meeting these needs.

You can approach Neuro-Hacking from a Neuro-Science perspective, playing around with your Neuro-Transmitter Balance through supplements, diet, exercise, meditation and breathwork. Or you can enhance your attempts to meta-program with Magick.

Using altered states of consciousness, either using whatever psycho-spiritual techniques or consciousness-altering substances, opens a window of neuroplasticity, that allows the self-aware meta-programmer to hack in new information/codes into the subconscious programs and to make a conscious effort to reprogramme conditioned neuro-pathways.

I approach Chaos Magick mostly with the psychological and information model of Magick, which I find attunes most to agnostic explorers with skeptical minds such as myself.

From this perspective, I acknowledge that my reality experience is mediated by the configuration of my Central Nervous System and any attempt at changing my experience of Reality, will have to include some reprogramming of the filters of perception that have become the main Modus Operandi of my Brain.

Chaos Magick offers me a pragmatic, creative and fun approach at experimenting with any given technology to alter filters of perception, states of consciousness or Nervous System Programs to improve the User Experience at the Game of Life on Terra and attune to the cosmic dance.

It can involve as much Woo Woo as you want it to involve. It can be done with or without the use of mind-altering substances.

This journey can be taken as an initiation into Chaos Magick.

If you are a total Noob or never heard of Chaos Magick before, I recommend you take a ticket with more guided support though, as this is not merely a course, but a magickal expedition and I will be conjuring out of the Chaos Vortex to enhance the trip.

If you are courageous enough you can jump on the Monk ticket even without extensive previous experiences, but things might get unexpectedly wyrd and if you have little experience navigating that, you might be in for an overwhelming ride. If this feels too daunting, just take “The Balanced Psychonautics Quest” on your own time and come back to this later.

If you have already started dabbling with magick, this program will serve as accelerator in either of the ticket tiers.

A seasoned magickian might still benefit from joining the egregor of the Chaos Monk Network to intensify their magical practice and apptitude through dedication. And you will still learn a ton about using this model.

No. You can benefit from this journey even if you have never tried psychedelics before. For this journey to make sense, you need at least experience in ritual practice, magick or spiritual work though.

During this expedition, I encourage you to not take any psychedelic trips since we want to explore the natural sensitivity of the nervous system using rituals, meditations and other challenges. Any experiments with substances you do under your own responsability.

Yes. We do appreciate upfront investments but, since we are surfing chaos, we appreciate flexibility as well and have the option for 3-5 installments to be paid until the end of the expedition. Making the full investment before the expedition starts, unlocks a power of its own though.

If you cannot meet me at my magick numbers, you can tell me yours. I might or might not go for it.

Well, we journey on a ship and we act as scholars… but we do not have free rides. But we have one spot as Quarter Master available for a reduced ticket and we can strike barter deals if you cannot pay in coin.

ChaoSurfing has a few needs to develop the next levels of Quest: Programmers, Marketers, Designers, Illustrators, Storytellers. In anyway, you still need to put some skin in the game, but we can talk about the number.

The Quarter Master has the job of technical support on the Monastic Master Mind Zoom calls, supporting the Crew on Discord and sending reminders for the gatherings to the rest of the Crew in exchange for a reduced ticket.

The best way to figure this out is on the onboarding call with the captain. But here are some pointers:

If you find yourself on the Autism spectrum and the idea of participating in Group Zoom calls feels terrifying, but you are up for participating in the discord forums, and you have a bit of experience with magick practice, the Monk ticket might be your best bet.

If you enjoy talking to others and engaging in group work, really want to geek out with fellow cartographers, and deepen your experience through group ritual, the master ticket is your best bet.

If you want to deep metaprogramming work and could use a deep mirroring guide to do so and you are ready to go all in on this expedition, the Magicikian Ticket is for you.

You have absolutely no clue of what we have talked about in this page.

You cannot absorb long-form content.

You think believing in magick is stupid or believe practicing magick is the devil’s work.

You are comfortable where you are or afraid of change.

Your skeptical mind is so in charge, that you would be just nagging at everything presented in this journey.

On the ADHD side of life:

The video transmissions are pre-recorded and evergreen, so you can take them in on your own pace, watch them, and listen to them in whichever way it is easier for your system to absorb information. You can even binge-watch the content ahead of departure time if you sign up early.

Also, you can download the PDF with the lecture slides and flick through them before or after taking in the videos to prime your brain with what to expect or decide if you have the bandwith to take that content in.

Some of the videos are just 20-30 min long, some up to 90 min.

If you cannot bring enough attention to the lectures, you still get a decent bang for your buck by just reading the Quest Scrolls, and experimenting with the Quest Items, and participating on Discord/Zoom.

The monastic oath will give you a self-determined structure to work with and the whole journey a better understanding on how to play with structure to support your flow of Chaos.

On the Autism side of Life:

The content is neatly structured in 2 sides, 8 units with 5 chapters each, making it easier to absorb.
You can avoid the Zoom Calls if that feels too daunting and just hop on board on a Monk Ticket and put more of your time into interacting on Discord to make the most of your ride. You can also change voice message support for text message support.

On the BPD side of life:

We recognize you have your highs and lows and that you might not want to come on deck to play with the rest at times. I recommend a Master Ticket, so you can get additional support by the Captain in a more intimate setting to help you stay on course or catch up.

Yes. Even though this journey does not have gender topics as a main focus, we embrace Queerness as part of the Kaleidoscopic Expression of Diversity of neuro-wiring. We own the awareness that on the Neuro-Spicy side of life we love to move with nuance when choosing identities and binary polarities often don´t do justice to our experience.

The captain also makes an effort to use the chosen pronouns and make the space welcoming for all genders.

But be aware: part of the journey will challenge you to lose the grip of identities, especially if they limit your growth.