Phil Hine is a former editor of the magazines Chaos International and Pagan News and the author of Condensed Chaos; Prime Chaos and The Pseudonomicon. He has facilitated workshops and seminars in America and Europe and lectures on a wide variety of occult and related subjects. He lives in London, England.

"Phil Hine is a witty and engaging writer whose work is informed by decades of experience at the bleeding edge of occultism. This compilation of his essays covers a huge range of modern magical thought and practice in a very fluid and readable style. Indispensable for anyone interested in learning more about some of the most important developments that have formed magick in the 21st century." — Rodney Orpheus, author of Abrahadabra and Grimoire of Aleister Crowle

"In Hine’s Varieties we have a valuable gift from one of the key figures in the late 20th/early 21st century Pagan and occult scenes. Unlike the blustery works of many contemporary occultists, this vulnerable and honest collection provides a rare window of insight into Phil Hine’s magical development, set within a historical context. This wide-ranging feast of essays includes lost Pagan subcultural history, delicious nuggets of practice stretching from Chaos to Tantra, and the historical unearthing of little-known esoteric personae. Hine moves gracefully between moving intimacy and tight, engaging scholarship, with a humility that is uncharacteristic of the field. Even after 40 years of contributions to occult culture, Phil Hine remains a perpetually refreshing voice." — Dr. Amy Hale, co-editor of The Taro of Ithell Colquhoun and Journal of the Academic Study of Magic 5

"These short essays demonstrate a wealth of ritual experience and thinking about magic, tantra, politics, history, and sexuality. Such a mirrorball of collected reflections is effortlessly held together by Phil's own magical attitude of playful seriousness and what I might even go so far as to call his trademark imaginative pragmatism." — Dr. Alexander Cummins, author of The Starry Rubric and A Book of the Magi

"Phil Hine catalyzes and manifests new invigorations of ritual, research and resurrections of trajectories of tantra, chaos and queer. Avoiding fetishism, and deeply energetic in his refined detail, Hine's work collates ethical, thoughtful, transgressive and practical guidance for thinking and ritualizing contemporary magic in ways only he can." — Patricia MacCormack, Professor of Continental Philosophy, Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge, author of Cinesexuality; Posthuman Ethics and The Ahuman Manifesto