There is a vibe with New Age practices. Expensive crystals, designer wool shirts from Tibet, Shamans who channel alien councils to change your vibrations, etc. It's accessible and it can get pretty out there, but there is always a loose dogma and a lot of high-horsing on 'negative vibrations'. Generally speaking I avoid new-agers because most I've run into are delusional and uninteresting regurgitating husks.
Chaos Magic is based around a technological view of belief, a recognition that underlying all reality is a swirling void of chaos, and that there are no natural laws, only patterns that emerged from chaos. Dogma exists not to guide your actions, but to be used to fulfil certain goals with genuine belief. You pick Christ up when you want Love, then drop him for Buddha when you want equanimity, and then drop that for Merlin when you need to ride the dragon, and then embody Sun Wukong when you need to be mightier than the forces of Heaven. There's a large population of Chaos Magicians that believe in the validity of pop-culture icons as genuine idols, they see deities are just characters we hold in higher respect than ones from fiction.
Using Chat GPT to do your esoteric research is lazy and dangerous, at least use Wikipedia. The easiest option is hardly the best.
