Phil Hine Caos Condensado 1 EBook 1 PDF
Julieann Rohde
looking 'behind the facade' of paramount reality fortheunderlying complexities and patterns. Chaos places anemphasisupon attention todetail, tobeing wary of the tendency tobecomeuncritical of that which seems, on thesurface, to beself-evident.On the more practical level of sorceryhe use ofenchantmentsto actualise desire, it is all to easy to view asituation in terms ofour own viewpoint being the most important, orthat ourperspective of an event is the only one that counts. TheEgoMagic techniques of Chaos Magic allow youto shiftperspectivesand look at a situation from another person'sviewpoint. Therelativistic perspective of Chaos Magic emphasizesthatsituations and events are rarely as clear-cut as we wouldlikethem to be. There is also the question of how the 'Selfisregarded.Although science has more or less driven out thereligiousconcept of animmortal soul, it still tends to make adistinctionbetween innerandouter experiencebyupholding theMind-BodydivideThe Ghost in the Machine. Magical theories which,likescientific theories, were codified and generalised intheNineteenth century, tend to reinforce this division tovariousdegrees. In contrast, Chaos supports the view that theMindarises from the body. On the surface, this appears to beareductionist argument, which is a criticism which has beenleveledat Chaos Magic on more than one occasion. However,there is more tothe concept than divesting ourselves ofessentialist qualities.Manymagiciansusethe term BodyMind tosignify that Mind and Body shouldbe considered a unifiedwhole. If this can be accepted, then thewhole subjective-objective distinction is called into question.Moreover, thisviewpoint is supported by Chaos Science, which hasnot onlyhighlighted the fact that the 'objective' world, which wasoncethought to bemeasurable, quantifiable andexplainablefollowingmathematical rules, has a high level of 'fuzziness' andindeter-minacy; but also that the 'subjective world' of themind canbeexamined using analytical tools. Not only is there no 'Ghost'inthe machine, but the idea of aphysiological 'machine'movingthrough a passive environment has been shown up to berathersimplistic. Chaos philosophy is developing the ideaofinterdependent systemsecologieswhich have the inherentcapacityforself-organisation. Asapurely practical example, go