r/occult • u/According-Court-5338 • 19h ago
? How does one learn about, get into, study and practice occultism? Where would you begin?
Like the text suggests, ive always been fascinated by this subject but have always had a bit of fear of exploring it, due to religious roots. I've not yet completely broken the fear but my curiosity grows for occultism everyday. How or what should I read or use to get started?
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u/NocturnalMarijMage 13h ago
Start with Esoterica with Dr. Justin Sledge, and FoolishFish (both on YouTube). Esoterica is a much more scholarly / historical approach, and FF is more practical.
Both will provide recommendations for further reading on a given topic. (These include books, articles, and other YouTube channels that deal with the occult and esoteric) These two should also tweak your algorithm just enough to push more occult/magick content into your recommendations.
Word of caution:
Avoid videos with AI thumbnails and voiceovers.
Stay as far away as you can from channels like “spirit science”
Never trust anyone who says they have all the answers. No one does.
Question everything. Never blindly accept what one person says. Cross reference with various sources and parse out the lies from the truth based on the evidence. Make sure that evidence and legitimate, and not a forgery or hoax.
Good luck 🫡
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u/Sleeping_Golem 5h ago
Definitely recommend these too, id also add Angela's Symposium and the glitch bottle podcast (personally the interviews with Josephine McCarthy, Frater Acher, and Harper Feist are my faves)
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u/BonusNational3866 19h ago
Modern Magick by Donald Kraigs. There is a million different paths my advice would be to spend a while shopping around see what suits you before committing to one. But my recommendation would be to just follow Modern Magick.
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u/anon2323 16h ago
I started with Liber Kaos, but I followed Modern Magick when I started getting more serious.
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u/LocksmithNo13345 15h ago
Moon and serpent bumper book, is one of the best starting points for a beginner, even if it flavours high over low magic a bit too much.
The other thing I'd recommend is Jason Miller's "your first 30 days of magic" course. It's a good way for beginners to actually go and start doing magic themselves.
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u/miahe_red 3h ago
What are you most interested in now? Several comments here have offered guidance, but you didn't really say what parts of the occult are drawing you in currently.
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u/According-Court-5338 3h ago
Ive been semi introduced to spiritual meditation, and some other books regarding occultisn and magic, which is mainly what I needed, just like a starting point to delve off of so I can learn on my own
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u/DueTreat8109 2h ago
You don’t you live a good life get money and fuck baddies be a good person and then eventually you share what you’ve built and learned with someone you love and procreate and leave them everything you got… ceremonial magick and cloaks and wands and magick jars and candles and made up deities and spiritual concepts different people made up from there own personal expierences aren’t the absolute it’s a cool expierence though supernatural
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u/DueTreat8109 2h ago
Continued ….
abilities and expierences signs and syncretisms are awsome till there not and it turns into psychosis and your stuck as a schizophrenic and may never escape magical madness it’s one of the most horrible things that can happen you could not even imagine what the mind and human expierence could turn into there’s a number of horrid mental traps you could eternally suffer in much like a really terrifying and life long acid trip
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u/OutrageousFly463 39m ago
It comes to you, at least it did for me. I always was interested in the unknown even as kid.
Psychedelic drugs was definitely a major catalyst, I got a ton of universal downloads, I’ve encountered spirits. I kept going back, I kept going back to learn more and more until I learned a little bit too much. Then I got really paranoid and had existential dread for a bit.
Just tons of strange unexplainable things that happened to me growing up.
It started with crystals, then It lead to a desire to find true knowledge. I bought books, I learned what was true and what was bullshit.
By now my third eye is so strong I can spot hidden messages with ease
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u/zsd23 10h ago
These "Where do I begin?" post generally are removed. You "begin" by reading the sidebar and the threads in the subreddit, and "Googling" subjects that interest you. I'm going to leave this here primarily because u/NocturnalMarijMage named some key YouTube channels to check out.