7. Peter J. Carroll

The Chaos of Speculation

Peter Carroll began his career in Magic at London University where the Chemistry proved so tedious that he settled on a pass degree in that and an unauthorized first in Magic, with Liber Null & Psychonaut emerging as his postgraduate thesis over the next several years whilst teaching high school science.

He then set off around the world wandering in the Himalayas, building boats in India and Australia and seeking out unusual people.

Then after a stay in Yorkshire, he headed back to the Himalayas for a while again before returning to settle in the west of England to found a family and a magical order. Appalled by the compromises made by so many magi to make a living out of their writing or teaching, Carroll decided to make his fortune with a natural products business so that he could write and teach only what had value and interest for him. Chancellor to Arcanorium College.

• Past Grandmaster of the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros

• Acting Marshall, Knights of Chaos

• A Bard of Dobunni Grove

Website: specularium.org

(Due to his endeavors Pete would rather remain animageous)

Will: What are some of the games you have designed so far?

Peter J. Carroll: At https://specularium.org/games working on a project for solo or multiple person game.

W: What are your current magical projects and goals?

PJC: The Elder Gods from the EPOCH. Alternative quantum ontologies or epistemologies. Hypersphere Cosmology.

W: Tell us a verb. What do you do in general that you find engaging?

Walking in nature. Fitness. Handicrafts.

W: Which themes do you address with your practice?

PJC: Spacetime, Mass-Energy, Psi, Imagination, Consciousness.

W: What are some of the problems you keep coming across?

PJC: Quantum Field Theory. Defining Consciousness rigorously. Human stupidity, including my own.

W: When did your magical interest start?

PJC: About age 16.

W: Which are some of your most inspiring referents?

PJC: Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Gödel, Macgregor Mathers, Austin Spare, Robert Anton Wilson.

W: How do you structure your practice?

PJC: Try to do some magic, thinking, making, and research every day.

W: What’s a question you consider important to reflect on?

Does anything have absolute truth? Does anything remain absolutely impossible?