In Toltec Nagualism as presented in the books by Carlos Castaneda, Don Juan Matus, the shaman who initiates Carlos, says that the ultimate goal of the magickal way of the "new seers" is absolute freedom, as opposed to the old ones who were seeking more "mundane" goals. The freedom to perceive whatever is possible, the freedom to keep the flame of conciousness.
To achieve this state of freedom - you have to first realize and then reclaim your personal power, from wherever you have placed it.
Don Juan says that the seers have discovered that within the human "bubble" (I have explained this concept in this post, Click here!) there is only a limited amount of energy, of power, that cannot be increased and cannot be decreased, and the error that men tend to do is to push this power from their own core to the "mantle" of their being, creating a "hard shell" of some sort that dims the light of that human being.
There are all sorts of ways human beings do that, for example, they depend on plants of power and magick rituals to change and expand their perception. The use of such methods is not bad, as long as one remembers that the power comes from within him, and not the plant or ritual. This is what I love about Chaos Magick, it emphasizes not the ritual, but the man performing it and his connection to Kia, the khaotic fractal inside him which he is.
Another method people tend to unconsciously use in order of dimming their own glow, is depending on some kind of an "external" figure of "lord god", represented here on earth by "the system", be it classic religions with their priests, rabbies and laws, or be it the religion of the age of reason - the "state", with all of it's "officials" telling you, basically, that you are to dumb to make decisions with your own life, and you should willingly give them the power over you.
For this reason, being an anarchist is really important for occult practitioners of this age.
For modern day mages, there are several ways of doing so, and my own favourite, and the method I have found most useful, is the NSP.
The NSP - No State Project - Is a voluntarist project that was founded in the US by a guy named Marc Stevens. The project's purpose is to spread anarcho-voluntaristic philosophy, in order of making real changes towards personal freedom, and giving actual practical tools in doing so, by teaching "defendants" in "victimless crimes" such as drugs, taxes etc how to succesfully defend themselves in court house againt beurocratic attacks, without a lawyer, in such a way that minimzes the damage, AND reveals the entire con game of "the state".
I am currently applying this method to my own life, facing a trial for possession of 0.3g of weed. It's the third time I'm in court house for ridiculous shitness like that, the other times, 3 years ago, I have used the method of the NSP successfully but silently. This time I'm making as much noise and mess as I possibly can, trying my best to shake the very foundations of the state's egregore, for achieveing personal freedom, reclaiming personal power and contributing the the DKMU's assault on consensual reality.
Will update.
