> What fascinates me about the occult personally is that it's a fundamentally inferior ontology - where it's what you believe when you don't have belief
These characters are fascinating when they're safely in the past and they can be seen purely as drawing out an unacknowledged need in the zeitgeist. In the present, it's terrifying and infuriating to see people choosing their reality out of sheer self-indulgence.
I don't understand the quoted sentence from GP, what does that really mean?
Also, you seem to think you don't choose your reality because it's "objective". Why do you believe that? From a relativistic point of view, wouldn't those occultists also think that their reality is the "real" one, and that you are choosing your reality out of sheer self-indulgence (or ignorance, or whatever)?
These characters are fascinating when they're safely in the past and they can be seen purely as drawing out an unacknowledged need in the zeitgeist. In the present, it's terrifying and infuriating to see people choosing their reality out of sheer self-indulgence.