Hey I'm CT. I'm an occultist. I study magic, mysticism, esoterica, cults, conspiracy theories, and con-artists, and I post about it here.

If you've got a question, feel free to ask. There are no dumb questions when it comes to this stuff.

PATREON - Hey if you like what I do, you can support me on patreon. Its pay-what-you-like, so all tiers get access to the same stuff. I post drafts and all my research notes.

NORMAL TAROT SILVER - I designed a custom cartomancy deck, and its now print-to-order. You can get the Silver edition I made in collaboration with @uglymelon here.

NORMAL TAROT GOLD - The same cartomancy deck with different art, this time done by the amazing @charminglyantiquated

TWITTER - I'm also on twitter.

AMBER SKIES - The unedited first draft of my novel, can be found here!

EMERALD SEAS - It's currently still-in-progress sequel, can be found here!

TWITCH - Quizzardy Live every Thursday at 5pm pst

DISCORD - Server for my twitch show Quizzardry

VOD CHANNEL - Featuring all the Vods of Quizzardry you might've missed

(My promo image and header are the work of @terrafey)

Literally the only part of my life that would have to change for monastery living is my stream setup. I don't think they let you stream at the abbey.

How good you are at reading is the upper cap on how good you are at writing.

I literally think I was made for monastery life. I already spend most of my time either reading, writing, cleaning, or cooking. I do my best work when I am isolated and calm.

Oh this is delightful nonsense. Its a combination of ley lines, pseudo-archeology, and occidental geomancy with a thick new age soup as glue.

Jean Paul Laurens, The Cadaver Synod

LAVOS PRIME is my boy. But I enjoy Gauss Prime and tbh? I actually love Umbra. I gravitate towards melee focused builds in games like warframe and Umbra hits that shit for me.

A dying Aristotle, temporarily revived by smelling an apple. From The Book of the Apple

From Eisenbibliothek's MS 20 f. 15v.

My notes say "we need about one page on plato" and I wrote almost exactly a page within two characters. Deeply satisfying.

The birth of Western Esotericism, today on Patreon.

*read, Plato pretending to be Socrates

Honestly the weirdest shit is recent. There was a sweet spot around the early 2000s where people figured out you could pay vanity publishers over the internet. Occult texts are usually odd, but they usually make some sense. There is some shit from that era that is truly incoherent. Like, ufo channeled texts that were then translated into english from spanish and the spanish barely made sense to begin with.

Anything called like, "The Brotherhood of Cosmic Awakening" or shit like that. Its hard, the occult is by definition mythology-building unconcerned with its own history, so it can be difficult to make anti-recommendations. The best advice I can give is to familiarize yourself with the basics of conspiracy lore and common pseudo-histories. There are plenty of youtube channels that debunk stuff like that.

That said, its kind of a universal experience among the occult-interested that your entry into this whole world won't exactly be historically rigorous. It will be some interesting concept presented in fiction, or some good but outdated occult history like The Golden Bough or anything by Dame Frances Yates.

I think the most useful skill you can develop for exploring the occult is determining what KIND of pseudohistory you're dealing with. A lot of influential occultists created oddball pseudohistories that are essential for understanding their work. Hell, look at Blavatsky, or Marsillio Ficino, even the Late Platonists are guilty of this.

Just, don't go to tiktok and search "occult secrets" or whatever. You'll get a lot of nazis and strange women trying to sell you things, and strange nazi women trying to sell you things.