Two Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Thursdays, May 21 & 28, 2026
7:00 - 9:00pm ET (NYC Time)
$95 Paid Patreon Members / $110 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
Born out of the experimental ferment of the 1970s occult revival, Chaos Magic has grown into one of the most influential and iconoclastic movements in modern esotericism. In these workshops, Julian Vayne—historian and initiate—will lead us on a deep dive of the evolution of this magical current from its anarchic beginnings in post-punk counterculture to its impact on today’s digital and psychonautic subcultures.
Drawing from his 40 years of experience as a practitioner and his role as a senior member of The Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT), Julian will explore how Chaos Magic dismantled dogma and tradition, reframing belief itself as the magician’s primary tool. We will examines how techniques such as sigilisation, paradigm shifting, the colours of magic and media-based sorcery have evolved alongside technology and culture, and what the future of magic might look like in the age of AI, post-truth and virtual spaces.
Attendees will also have the opportunity to try out some practical techniques of chaos magic, including how to summon the IOT's healing spirit—first developed during the HIV pandemic—along with powerful and accessible techniques for self-empowerment and transformation from the cutting edge of occulture. Sessions will be both intellectually rigorous and radically open-ended, come for the history and theory, stay for the practical application!
Liber32: Issue Two Magazine, ca. 2014, Aeon Network. Public Domain.
Molin Le Baiser rendu Judas et Satan, ca. 1879, Benoît-Hermogaste Molin. Public Domain.
Julian Vayne is a British independent scholar and author with over four decades of experience within esoteric culture, a senior member of the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros, he is widely recognized as one of Britain’s leading occultists.
Two Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
Thursdays, May 21 & 28, 2026
7:00 - 9:00pm ET (NYC Time)
$95 Paid Patreon Members / $110 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
Born out of the experimental ferment of the 1970s occult revival, Chaos Magic has grown into one of the most influential and iconoclastic movements in modern esotericism. In these workshops, Julian Vayne—historian and initiate—will lead us on a deep dive of the evolution of this magical current from its anarchic beginnings in post-punk counterculture to its impact on today’s digital and psychonautic subcultures.
Drawing from his 40 years of experience as a practitioner and his role as a senior member of The Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT), Julian will explore how Chaos Magic dismantled dogma and tradition, reframing belief itself as the magician’s primary tool. We will examines how techniques such as sigilisation, paradigm shifting, the colours of magic and media-based sorcery have evolved alongside technology and culture, and what the future of magic might look like in the age of AI, post-truth and virtual spaces.
Attendees will also have the opportunity to try out some practical techniques of chaos magic, including how to summon the IOT's healing spirit—first developed during the HIV pandemic—along with powerful and accessible techniques for self-empowerment and transformation from the cutting edge of occulture. Sessions will be both intellectually rigorous and radically open-ended, come for the history and theory, stay for the practical application!
Liber32: Issue Two Magazine, ca. 2014, Aeon Network. Public Domain.
Molin Le Baiser rendu Judas et Satan, ca. 1879, Benoît-Hermogaste Molin. Public Domain.
Julian Vayne is a British independent scholar and author with over four decades of experience within esoteric culture, a senior member of the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros, he is widely recognized as one of Britain’s leading occultists.
