- Joined
- Mar 7, 2026
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- 5
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Had a literal Christian cult upbringing (born into it), complete with wacky correspondences to get just enough of an occult system working while brainwashing for a selfish agenda (the cult was The Children of God). Grew up on the West Coast of Africa and in Brazil as a result. Our family left the cult after a few years of being in Canada, and I went atheist in highschool and the first few years of Uni. It was mostly a practical choice; I had lots of supernatural experiences growing up, but the cult propaganda system was dense enough that anything regarding spirit needed detangling. Liberal - but regimented - use of psychedelics, more writing invented rituals and art than I can shake a staff at, eventual spontaneous entity experiences, and research into the Western Magickal Tradition brought me back full circle. Now, knowledge of the hidden is just something I acknowledge as a part of life.
I wouldn't describe myself as a person who follows the Western Magickal Tradition because I've got an inherent suspicion of most historical Magickal groups. I recognize that a portion of it is trauma, the other portion is just assuming that it'd be pretty easy and beneficial if you happened to have enough power and money to use ritual in combination with mass propaganda to draw energy from a populace. Groups like this are important to me because they allow individual practitioners to gather and share knowledge in a way that can be peer acknowledged/reviewed and accepted. I recognize that gatekeeping is common sense when it comes to information that people aren't ready for, but I like the idea of the path towards that knowledge being clearly pointed out and articulated. I'm heavily indebted to people that have made information like the basic building blocks of The Golden Dawn system and Daoist mystical practice accessible. Knowledge should be free, tempered by discipline.
I wouldn't describe myself as a person who follows the Western Magickal Tradition because I've got an inherent suspicion of most historical Magickal groups. I recognize that a portion of it is trauma, the other portion is just assuming that it'd be pretty easy and beneficial if you happened to have enough power and money to use ritual in combination with mass propaganda to draw energy from a populace. Groups like this are important to me because they allow individual practitioners to gather and share knowledge in a way that can be peer acknowledged/reviewed and accepted. I recognize that gatekeeping is common sense when it comes to information that people aren't ready for, but I like the idea of the path towards that knowledge being clearly pointed out and articulated. I'm heavily indebted to people that have made information like the basic building blocks of The Golden Dawn system and Daoist mystical practice accessible. Knowledge should be free, tempered by discipline.
