What got you into the occult?

[Morell]

Not ashamed... World of Warcraft.

 

[Denise13]

Lifelong interest.

Formally, my aunt started me on astrology at age 8, though she wasn't overly knowledgeable on the subject. By 12 I was reading Waite, Abramelin, etc and it kept going.

 

[hollowglasd]

I was given a tarot deck as a teenager and down the rabbit hole I went

 

[Emperor Time]

My mom was always into the paranormal which got me into it as well.

 

[alexander]

I guess I've always been interested. Started off slow, gathering some books, a lot of reading/research, not so much actually doing the rituals/spell work. little by little I've started to experiment, and noticed some of the things I've tried are really starting to pan out. I'm trying to get better at documenting/writing down dates, what rituals, etc...not easy when you have ADD lol.
but yes, my intentions were always to just make things happen and improve life, even little things

 

[Reaper]

Witchcraft was my gateway. I was always into the paranormal from the time I was a kid. As an adult I went down a long and interesting spiritual path of learning about several different religions to see " what really stuck". I found Witchcraft and slowly ended up in the occult. I've never been happier, and never looked back.

 

[Zander]

Pain and desperation. I was a christian, poor, seeing my family suffer without a way to help them. I prayed and prayed, no answer just pain. At some point, pain and silence turned to anger that gave me the courage to 'transgress' by taking the leap into the darkness.

 

[Ohana]

Bioshock the video game. So I learned about it became obessed. Helped me leave bad, toxic environments I was in to live. Then after a series of odd events learned about the intangible could technically exist too then now here I am learning everyday.

Now I know about pop culture magic so might try to with Bioshock. Its a video game with a lot of emotional weight for me and helped a lot with channeling energy.

 

[Borealis]

Folks-tales

 

[GanGreenGroin]

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......

 

[GreyBird]

Living in China and talking to so many witches.

 

[Sedim Haba]

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.

 

[Jhary-a-Conel]

Books about witchcraft were reliable sources of pictures of girls with no clothes on.

 

[Jonathan Strange]

I read the Invisibles by Grant Morrison when I was beggining to have access to the internet, in 2001, 2002, and it made me search for other things like it.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

I read the Invisibles by Grant Morrison when I was beggining to have access to the internet, in 2001, 2002, and it made me search for other things like it.

I've just finished a re-read of the Invisibles
It's interesting to see where the fiction and the fact cross over in Morrison's magnum opus

 

[dollethic]

To be honest, I've just always been drawn to urban legends and loved performing those rituals that kids do on sleepovers by myself, and recently I simply started getting more into it all. I have also witnessed things that cannot be explained without involving the supernatural. My interest comes mainly from the media, mostly horror movies and shows.