I know you have alluded to this briefly for years but I wanted t ask what you thought about the public perception of occultism and how it seems to be going downhill and the risks for people interested in it and precautions to take etc.
For eg see this edition of the well known Coffee and COVID newsletter that is often mentioned here - from last week - this edition is about the FBI making a bunch of arrests in what is described as a “Satanic occult child abuse ring” (god knows how true the allegations are and what exactly was/is going on but if there have been a number of arrests and court filings there probably was some shady stuff going on for sure whether or not it was directly occult linked
Similarly I was at a comic book store last week and was just rummaging through new releases and randomly picked up a graphic novel (not one of the famous names - I can’t even remember the title now but it was some new experimental series) and it was clearly trying to be “edgy” and “dark” and there’s a group of young men who were running around committing crimes shouting “As Above, So Below” - which was of course meant to be some kind of dark occult reference..
This is all just in the last week, but I’m sure you get my point…what should occultists do? Even my wife threatens to divorce me when I start talking about occult rituals (she is joking about the divorce - we have a good marriage - but she is a practicing Catholic and is genuinely deeply uncomfortable with the idea of “occult rituals” beyond simple meditation)
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Public perception of occultism
Date: 2025-05-12 01:30 pm (UTC)I know you have alluded to this briefly for years but I wanted t ask what you thought about the public perception of occultism and how it seems to be going downhill and the risks for people interested in it and precautions to take etc.
For eg see this edition of the well known Coffee and COVID newsletter that is often mentioned here - from last week - this edition is about the FBI making a bunch of arrests in what is described as a “Satanic occult child abuse ring” (god knows how true the allegations are and what exactly was/is going on but if there have been a number of arrests and court filings there probably was some shady stuff going on for sure whether or not it was directly occult linked
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-destroyer-wednesday-may-6-2025
Similarly I was at a comic book store last week and was just rummaging through new releases and randomly picked up a graphic novel (not one of the famous names - I can’t even remember the title now but it was some new experimental series) and it was clearly trying to be “edgy” and “dark” and there’s a group of young men who were running around committing crimes shouting “As Above, So Below” - which was of course meant to be some kind of dark occult reference..
This is all just in the last week, but I’m sure you get my point…what should occultists do? Even my wife threatens to divorce me when I start talking about occult rituals (she is joking about the divorce - we have a good marriage - but she is a practicing Catholic and is genuinely deeply uncomfortable with the idea of “occult rituals” beyond simple meditation)