What got you into the occult?

[nargile57]

A visit to The Sorcerer's Apprentice bookshop in Leeds back in the late 70's looking for UFO books.
It changed my life when I saw what was on offer.

 

[Hakon]

An AMORC book on Kabbalah was one of my first true points of contact with this path. At the time, I knew almost nothing about the subject, but it quickly became my first real hyperfixation and set me on a deep search through Jewish mysticism. That search, in turn, opened the way to the wider world of occultism.

Today, my practice remains firmly rooted in a strong Jewish foundation, while also drawing, with discernment and respect, from what I find most valuable in other traditions.

 

[Veracity]

I remember seeing a purple neon outine when i was 5 or 6.
In bedroom the outline stretched out a hand and i could see a face but no face was there, freaked out i screamed and dad came in and settled me down( dad wasnt a believer)
Jump forward a year and flicking through a photo album (it was the 80s) in my grandparents and i told my dad that a photo was of the ghost i saw the previous year.
Dad laughed and said it was was his grandad but he had been gone over 20 years and no more was said.
I told his dad and thats when i learnt he (my grandad)was a spiritualist.
Then a million questions and answers......

Ayyyy, so you see them
Often with neon outlines? That’s cool. Do they ever look like sparkly tv static to you?
You ever see any in full color?

Post automatically merged: Thursday at 2:26 PM

Kabbalah, in the 1970's. Got so deep into Lurianic Kabbalah that I underwent Orthodox conversion,

because the real teachers won't teach goyim (non-jews). O conversion failed, converted another branch

but got the teacher anyways. Until he passed from liver disease. That was 40-ish years ago. Miss him.

That’s pretty wild, do you still practice regularly or is it just so ingrained in you now that you don’t even think about it?