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Bad news folks. 99% of 'magic' is not what you think.

tranmut3

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Just watched the latest glitch bottle with Jack Grayle.
a couple of things are beginning to become clear from this episode.
Firstly, people have now totally lost the ability to read.
In the podcast, Jack Grayle at no point said anything revolutionary or new or even insightful - he just talked VERY superficially about the coffin texts / book of going forth / PGM. All of this information is freely available (usually in the introduction to these books or the first chapter at most) - but people ooh and aah like is it somehow plucked from the mouth of divinity. Alexander (glitch bottle host) was almost wetting his pants with excitement when jack read out a couple of spells which are freely available as said.
Jack seems a nice guy, and definitely an insipring speaker, but it's clear that he has no 'deep insight' into any of the afterlife books of ancient egypt or the PGM. His knowlege is absolutely superficial and limited to the very most basic things (another example of this is Foolish Fish, who has clealry no idea what he is talking about, whose knowledge extends no further than the first few pages of any of the books he reviews, and gets things totally wrong a lot of the time)
Jack's main deal seemed to be pointing out that most people think they are $h1t and that you need to like and believe in yourself to make something work, which is definitely true.
So its clear that Jack is actually rather a life coach, teaching the soft skill of positivity and self belief, dressing it up in a 'magic / occult' coat and charging 1000's of $$$ for the priviledge. Nothing wrong with making people feel good, but i think that the 'magic' that Jack is showing is 1 ) simply stuff he has himself taken the trouble to read, authored by someone else and 2 ) freely aviailable if you are able to make even a tiny tiny effort at all to actually open any of the books you buy from foolish fish's gushing goatskin top 10 show.
Does Jack / Jason / have any magical ability at all?
Would Hermes Trismegistus, if he existed today, or Dr John Dee, or... (insert your favourite actual magician) be on youtube, despearatley trying to sign people up for their 'mars magic' courses?? Think.
Jack's new PGM course costs 1000's of $$$
If Jack says 'Please Hecate, send me 1000's of followers and a stack of $$$, and the dollars pour into his account, then is that actually magic?
maybe it is. maybe it's just effective marketing.
and maybe that's ALL there is for 99% of folks, and maybe not even that. And certainly for the majority of occult authors, who have the absolute priviledge of never having to be at all validated for their claims. All the magic books that get pumped out of Llewelyn, authors claiming to be witches, sorcerers, goetic magicians etc, who are simply..... authors.
Remember, if you cannot do magic accoding to Jack or Jason of Denis, then you will probably be too ashamed to point that out, cos it means you wasted your 1000$ and are somehow a loser, right? cos Jack is the man.

Hecate, please send me 1000's of followers and a bucket of $$$.
 

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I always believed I know everything I must or will, eventually, and I have no clue about who's Jack Grayle, so I think I'm all good. I would rather turn that 1000$ on my energy drinks anyway. :rolleyes:
 

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Jack's new PGM course costs 1000's of $$$
If Jack says 'Please Hecate, send me 1000's of followers and a stack of $$$, and the dollars pour into his account, then is that actually magic?
maybe it is. maybe it's just effective marketing.
and maybe that's ALL there is for 99% of folks, and maybe not even that. And certainly for the majority of occult authors, who have the absolute priviledge of never having to be at all validated for their claims. All the magic books that get pumped out of Llewelyn, authors claiming to be witches, sorcerers, goetic magicians etc, who are simply..... authors.
Sure. there will always be people like this as long as there are suckers to give them money.

As for the occult authors, it's all about the experience. If you've had the experience, then you'll probably be able to tell if the author has had the experience. If you haven't had the experience, then how are you going to be able to tell shit from shinola?

And of course, the suckers, er, people you're talking about, haven't had the experience.

What I always say, is that most people aren't magicians, for the same reason most people aren't brain surgeons.
 

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Alexander Eth is a practicing grim-trad magician, but acting like a giggling fan-boy is good way to get people on the show. Call it the Oprah Strategy.

Grayle, never read any of his work, so no opinion. He was an actor, if I recall, and still seems like it. Real theater kid vibes, to my entertainment industry honed spider sense.

But yeah, selling overpriced courses to act as a translation layer for people too lazy or afraid of taking a chance for once in their lives... well, I guess there is a place for that? I personally dislike it , and feel it's taking advantage of the tepid and timid. But he's hardly the first, and won't be the last.
 

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What I always say, is that most people aren't magicians, for the same reason most people aren't brain surgeons.
Can't argue with this it really is that simple! 🤘
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But yeah, selling overpriced courses to act as a translation layer for people too lazy or afraid of taking a chance for once in their lives... well, I guess there is a place for that? I personally dislike it , and feel it's taking advantage of the tepid and timid. But he's hardly the first, and won't be the last.
Absolutely fucking love this! :love:
 
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Business is all about the numbers. And let’s be honest, ~80% of potential customers are never really going to do much with this stuff outside of aesthetic or some conscious/unconscious larping. Maybe another ~19% will armchair it or maybe get some minor results a few times in their life and that will be enough for them and will be the bulk of what they ever do with it.

With books/podcasts/courses you’ll never going to make a lot of money and most of your potential revenue isn’t in that last 1% or even in that second group. It’s in that first group so that’s what you focus on and sale to.

That being said, most of these authors probably fall in that second group.

But I do appreciate glitch bottle even if he over the top fan boys it at times. Got to make a living.

-Eld
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I bet A.C. would have been all over social media.
 
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