#Like 90% of the time these guys won't know what Taoism even Is and a remaining 9% is just like Uhhh | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

panvani · 1 year ago

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Ig at the end of the day (note that this isn't directed towards any particular person) I just find the practice of specifically 'occult' research to be very silly— it's the acquirement of vast amounts of knowledge without any learning. Esotericism has had historical value as a form of community building, or philisophizing, or even scientific study in the millenia prior to an actual useful understanding of chemistry, but the study of the "occult" tends to be at the explicit exclusion of any attempts to understand current or historical culture/philosophy, and doesn't tend to form community to boot.

#logxx #Esp bc the people who do this often very vocally announce thst they think it's fake #Like ummm you can learn chemistry and do Alchemy In Real Life... or do religious studies if the spirituality / ritual is what interests you #...#And then there's alsonthe fact that this genre of person also literally never has any interest in modern mysticism #Like they're very in denial of the existence of folk Catholicism or other syncretic religiosn #Or even just non-Western mystical practices broadly #Like 90% of the time these guys won't know what Taoism even Is and a remaining 9% is just like Uhhh #Isn't That That Fake Feng Shui Shit Sounds Dumb and you're like . Ok

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