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if you're an occultist reading this, please realize that no insult is meant at all! I disagree intensely with occultism because I see it as a pointless distraction from the beauty of real life, but occultists themselves aren't bad people, "devil worshipers," or otherwise worth castigating...
I wrote a bit about the toxicity that roiled through the occult community in the early 2000s. I saw that kind of thing all over the place when I encountered occultists online as a youngster. It was bad, but (sadly, IMHO) not enough to drive me away from the occult.
Extremely young and naïve, I ended up falling in with Aristasia in addition to the more typical, New Age occultism. I wandered in a sort of daze through different occult paths. I was a Thelemite, traditional witch, chaos mage, all in addition to Aristasia itself. I compartmentalized very well in that situation, where the occult took up a large part of my mental energy.
Since I’m a Christian now, I see all of this as a net negative experience for me. Some people have been asking on Discord and Facebook of all places if this is a joke. Well, it’s not a joke. I became a Christian on September 29th, 2025, if I recorded things right. Don’t mistake, I don’t mean that I’m a “Christian witch” or any silly contradiction like that, nor do I believe God’s whispering to me or sending me signs uniquely.
I’m just tired of wasting time on the occult when it obviously doesn’t bring people what it claims. Think about it. It feels like the Emperors New Clothes here, because even those mages considered successful usually lead deplorable lives, and many are terrible people. I’ve come to see all of it as either liars, victims of liars, or something in-between full of cognitive dissonance. Plenty of people do believe in “magick,” but they’re mistaken, and it never seems to work out well? The times that it does, it’s because of effort, not the happenstance you’d expect of magical intervention, either.
That said, I can’t pretend that my quarter-century of occultism didn’t happen, though. I want to know why I fell into it. I regret my occult involvement, but I’m not despondent over it, if that makes sense. I also have a lot of time on my hands. So I do think about the occult, why it captured me, and how it all comes together, frequently.
Some of these articles explore that, as well as other, important topics related to the occult. I really do hope I can help other people avoid it. This isn’t the Christian “ruuuuunnnnn from the occult demons!” talk, either. It’s more just me say, “look y’all, this isn’t productive, and here’s why.”
This page simply collects articles on this site which focus on occultism in some way, shape, or fashion. Many portray it in a very negative way. This is not because of my recent Christianity, and would be the case regardless. Most of the occult groups and people I talk about disturbing if not outright dangerous.
Be mindful of when these articles were written. The early ones won’t be edited or “updated,” because that feels asinine. Yet now, I want to make sure everyone knows that I’m not one of those people shouting that “oh, most occultists are pretending fluffy bunnies besides the serious, real ones!”
That’s far from my perspective nowadays. I won’t go promoting the occult like that. Nobody’s a fluffbunny mage or whatever, and sinking deeper into the occult won’t transform you into a serious wizard.. There are no real magicians because magic isn’t real.