You is the role you want to take...
To give, to create, to work your magic..
Within this great symbiotic play of forces, we work and dream and work..
Some people don't dream.
Some people don't work..

It's basics are.:
Use everything in your power.
Use every technique possible to get there where you want to be.
It is a magic without boundaries, without any set rituals.
It takes everything from history and every culture.

A good beginning would be meditation.
Maybe at a later state you can start offering sheep... haha.. just kidding.
Simple breathing exercises.
Exploring your personal space, focussing on your thought structure.
There are many more exercizes, a lot to be found on the internet.
I can really recommend the book "Condensed Chaos" by Phil Hine.
He gives a great view on this new kind of magic.

Geert speaks true; and Hine has a very lucid structure to his book.
Depending on your level of seriousness, Ray Sherwin's "Book of Results" also intones techniques of life altering value; one of the most effective portions of it, Hine has accessible on his site; "Demons of Habit, by Ray Sherwin" www.philhine.org.uk/writings...abit.html

It details, in and of itself, one of the ultimate goals of the Magickian, one that has caused many orthodox (read: peculiarly dogmatic) Chaoates to dismiss and disregard Astrology; The Personal Pantheon, or "Alphabet of Desire".


Practices vary, and I assure you, all those who have posted in this thread will approach their Art with highly varied styles. Granted, indeed, some overlap can take place.

You do not need a healthy body to work successful magick - but it helps.
You do not need to have mastered your mind to work successful magick - momentary events in which you can over power it (Gnosis) suffice.
You do not need to master Magick to live well - in fact it may draw in the deeper insanities - but it sure can add a richness to the experience.

Basic practices?
Magick operates through the medium of Belief.
Begin, and do not stop, stalking your beliefs. (Hine says: Eternal Vigilance is the price we pay for Illumination)

Create for yourself a Banishing Ritual.
Banishing Rituals work to clear a space, to clear the Magus, and to _compose_ one's self. All errant energies sorted. Protection from outside distraction erected, and a sense of clear and calm focus attained.

Borrow one from another tradition if you seek inspiration. Mine have, over time, become increasingly simplistic - but on occasion a fully involved, ritual of foot-body-arm movements, intoned vowels, and chanted statements feels necessary - it certainly helps to have a nice one for back up. As Hine mentions, also (I believe in Condensed Chaos) - showy ritual helps a lot when preforming a ceremony for *other people*. It bolsters belief (as all ritual serves as a prop to do, ultimately) and helps them *feel* the magick working.

Take walks. During these walks, allow yourself *no* distractions. No Cellphone. No MP3 or CD Player. No conversation with friends (unless you meet them on the course of your journey - do not allow them or anything else to alter the course of, or accompany you on your venture until it has completed itself) Simply observe. Play games of observation. See how many subtle details you can spot in a place that seems visually pleasing. Contemplate what about it feels visually pleasing. Do the same in a place that feels very visually repulsive. Notice what about it feels VISUALLY repulsive. Do the same for smell, for sound, and for texture. Experiment with new foods.

Choose a god(dess) and start a relationship with them. Exchange praises and offerings for services provided (keep the requests limited to those realms in which the diety governs). Do not allow yourself to become an Idle Worshipper. Find more dieties to play with. Even Bugs Bunny.

Stalk your beliefs. What underlying assumptions have you made that guide your practices? "Nothing is true. Everything is Permitted."
Stalk your practices. How closely do they correspond to idealistic beliefs?
Stalk your demons. Learn their names, the moments that they use to exert their power, their likes and dislikes, and how you can learn from them and put them into valuable service. Demons act to teach us if we let them, destroy us if we don't.

Practice techniques which result in free-energy, and behaviours which result in increasing liberation and diversity of options.

What do I mean by "Free-Energy"?
I mean the Erisian energy of the unexpected (All Hail Discordia!) which surfaces by walking home via a new route. Or discarding old habits and patterns of greeting, for adoption of a new one. Start small with the changes, to build success and familiarity. Anything can, later, result.
The energy which has remained pent each time we don't express exactly what we'd like to say (not as a reaction to provocation, but as a genuine insight, forsomereasonsuppressed) that becomes liberated through our freeing (read: speaking) of it.
The latent stagnant energy of tasks partially completed, drawn forth through completion.
And especially, most especially of all - the free energy of fresh understanding. True listening allows this - not attempting to suckle what you *think* someone says out of their words, but the genuine communication wrapped up in linguistic structures. We have two ears and two eyes, and one mouth, as the North American Aboriginals say.

As you advance, begin to seek out *non-verbal* communications. Notice the information presented in all things, not just the writing, but the size, colour, and angle of the font. The picture in the background. The posture of the person in the bus seat next to you. Your own body posture when faced with someone who encites relaxation in you. Your posture with someone who provokes aggressive sensations within yourself.

Apply this to memetics.

Send praises to Chaos. Baphomet. Thanateros. Livdieviding Complexified Coagulating Sex-Death Force. Moth-Father to us all.
IAO. IAO. IAO!

Evoke often. Banish with laughter.

(Liber Null and Psychonaut remains one of the most overall practical tomes available.)