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I’ve been researching and practicing the occult for I’d say a decade at this point. These day’s I’d consider myself a hermeticist. But I still have a love of more local spirits, ghosts and “cryptids/yokai/fae.” I feel like they often get sidelined among gods, and angels, the one. I’m very interested in recording local spirits at places (both human and non-human) it’s really my origins in the occult, when I was younger I would go ghost hunting and that’s how I started into the occult.
I don’t want to be a Zac Bagans, I’d prefer to avoid disturbing these too much, I feel that they likely have something of a “ecosystem” and i don’t want to control them. And I’d generally like to avoid banishing anything except as a last resort. But I want to understand the behavior of local spirits, document them.
I feel drawn to them, these beings which exist liminal between the spiritual and physical(although this separation is a flawed way to look at it I feel that most things still tend to stick to one side.) I feel that they represent an important aspect the world, and that external work is equally valuable as internal work, I also feel it’s somewhat neglected by a lot of new magicians who struggle desperately to avoid anything physical or “beneath them”.
so what are some skills that could help me A: defend against any potentially dangerous spirits(not that i expect to be in deep danger but if you go into the woods you bring bear spray) and ways to seek out these spirits better, ie perceive them more easily and be able to track them(although of course that exists on a case by case basis)
Also sorry that this post is a bit ranty I didn’t know how to word it particularly well without useing sensationalist terms like “cryptid hunting”
Also, addendum: I’d particularly like to hear about ceremonial resources on the subject because I consider myself a ceremonial magician and generally get better results with it than with witchcraft.
I don’t want to be a Zac Bagans, I’d prefer to avoid disturbing these too much, I feel that they likely have something of a “ecosystem” and i don’t want to control them. And I’d generally like to avoid banishing anything except as a last resort. But I want to understand the behavior of local spirits, document them.
I feel drawn to them, these beings which exist liminal between the spiritual and physical(although this separation is a flawed way to look at it I feel that most things still tend to stick to one side.) I feel that they represent an important aspect the world, and that external work is equally valuable as internal work, I also feel it’s somewhat neglected by a lot of new magicians who struggle desperately to avoid anything physical or “beneath them”.
so what are some skills that could help me A: defend against any potentially dangerous spirits(not that i expect to be in deep danger but if you go into the woods you bring bear spray) and ways to seek out these spirits better, ie perceive them more easily and be able to track them(although of course that exists on a case by case basis)
Also sorry that this post is a bit ranty I didn’t know how to word it particularly well without useing sensationalist terms like “cryptid hunting”
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Also, addendum: I’d particularly like to hear about ceremonial resources on the subject because I consider myself a ceremonial magician and generally get better results with it than with witchcraft.
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