Ray Sherwin

Really wish I had read this one before now. It is a simple and gentle introduction to chaos magic, something of a philosophy text, without much in the way of practical exercises. I don't know if I've changed my attitude to these things in the 10 years or so since I originally read [author: Peter J Carroll] and [author: Phil Hine], but I'm much more prepared to work through the more rigorous exercises they suggest, so it's time to put them on the re-read list.As for a review proper of the book, I'd say that my biggest complaint is that it could stand a good run through a spell checker and a once-over from an editor. I normally don't notice that sort of thing, so it must be pretty severe. It's also possible that some of what I took for mistakes were Britishisms and/or occultisms I'm not familiar with.… (meer)