I met Peter online in 2005, through Robert Anton Wilson’s Maybe Logic Academy. I had dabbled in the occult here and there throughout my life, and at the time I was introduced to him I was slightly more skeptical than curious but enough of the latter to drink the Kool-Aid of chaos magic for six weeks that completely changed the course of my life. I subsequently participated in the IdeoSphere forum assembled by some alumni of that six-week course, and then Peter’s Arcanorium College (both à la MLA in their own ways) where I developed many of my early ideas that grew into HyperRitual and later Eldritech. Just a couple of days before he passed this week, I celebrated my 20th anniversary in the working group he co-founded.
Peter and I disagreed about many things (as people should), even in our earliest interactions, but I have always held a great measure of respect for him and the progressiveness of some of this ideas about magic. His opening words to Liber Null remain essential to my occult philosophy (even if his diagram of “the survival of the magical tradition” was sorely reductive), and several of my published works have been inspired by his ideas, including the TKS-127 Magical Probability Computer (an homage, really) and my latest article. He graciously wrote a brief foreword for Technomancy 101. I still have some works in development that are due in one way or another to the impact he made on me.
Many heartfelt thanks and GOB FOU, Frater Stokastikos. R.I.C.