Magical AI Grimoire: A Book of Shadows for Contemporary Chaos

by Davezilla, Peter J. Carroll (foreword)

“Chaos magic offers a great deal of inspiration for creative freedom and innovation in magic, but it also outrages many people who liked to think of themselves as guardians of ancient traditions. This new book seems destined to do exactly the same for the next generation of magicians. Its publication may well prove a seminal moment in the history of magic.”
—from the foreword by Peter J. Carroll
 
Magic workers have long used the tools at hand for crafting spells and rituals. AI technology has opened a new frontier for magic. Some of the most powerful tools at a magician’s fingertips today are computers and smart devices.
 
Magical AI Grimoire helps you to understand how to work with technology—creatively and ethically—in the practice of your magic. Whether you’re trying to use promptcraft to perfect a spell, ChatGPT to outline and strengthen a ritual, or generative image software to recreate what you’ve only seen on the astral plane, Davezilla is your guide.
 
Around the world, witches and magicians are finding that technology has a spiritual essence and a mind of its own. Witches and magicians have been using computers to organize sabbats and ceremonies since the early days of electronic communication. Astrology apps were some of the first applications written, and in most covens, it’s a good bet that one or more of the members work with computers. Davezilla provides context and history for the evolving uses of AI—from Alexa to Spotify to ChatGPT and beyond—and leads the pioneering, curious magician through a new magical realm with responsibility and clarity of insight.

Genres: Magic

288 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 3, 2025

Reviews

[Jim Street]

The title of the book is accurate and clearly demonstrates how to creatively engage modern computing tools to streamline magic. The structure of the content is "same-y" across most of the chapters, but then again that is the essence of what a grimoire is. I hoped there would be more to the book than promptcraft, but knowing that is fundamental to this whole endeavor. So this is a good place to start. I think there's even more applications in psychic self-reflection and illumination within the interactions with the models.
I had not been using AI tools for much of anything, but this encouraged me to take another look. The output I'm getting helps me sidestep all the second guessing that I normally do with any creative act and get to doing things faster. And since creative acts don't necessarily have to be fact-based, criticisms of AI accuracy don't really apply. Plus it's not like what the AI model spits out is perfect, it's more like a first draft that needs to be polished by each magician's personal style through the revision process.

[Jon Daniels]

This is probably going to annoy exactly the people chaos magick was invented to annoy, which already puts it on fairly solid ground with me. Davezilla treats AI like another weird piece of magical technology to experiment with, promptcraft, generated spirits, image work and all that, and having Carroll write the foreword feels almost suspiciously appropriate. Some of this will age hilariously fast because technology always does, but I tried one idea with an old servitor and the result was weird enough that im keeping my mouth shut about it for now.