{"id":1263,"date":"2026-04-25T14:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eldri.tech\/blog\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2026-04-25T22:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:35:21","slug":"remembering-peter-j-carroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eldri.tech\/blog\/remembering-peter-j-carroll","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Peter J. Carroll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I met Peter online in 2005, through Robert Anton Wilson&#8217;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&#8217;s Arcanorium College (both <em>\u00e0 la<\/em> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/iot-na.thanateros.org\/\">working group<\/a> he co-founded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 <em>Liber Null<\/em> remain essential to my occult philosophy (even if his diagram of &#8220;the survival of the magical tradition&#8221; was sorely reductive), and several of my published works have been inspired by his ideas, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/eldri.tech\/blog\/tks127\">TKS-127 Magical Probability Computer<\/a> (an homage, really) and <a href=\"https:\/\/eldri.tech\/blog\/robotheosis-art-magic-cybernetics\">my latest article<\/a>. He graciously wrote a brief <a href=\"https:\/\/technomancy101.com\/carroll\/\">foreword for Technomancy 101<\/a>. I still have some works in development that are due in one way or another to the impact he made on me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many heartfelt thanks and GOB FOU, Frater Stokastikos. R.I.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Requiescat in Chao<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eldri.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eldri.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eldri.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eldri.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eldri.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/eldri.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/eldri.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eldri.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eldri.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eldri.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}