Deluded Fools, occultist who've proven their just nuts Options

Has anyone met in person or on the internet claiming to be something only to start coming off as being crazy as a near total nutjob?

Uh, yeah that accounts for about 70% or more of the people you'll ever speak with about occult topics.

However, let's keep in mind that the occult world, and magickal experience all together, can be extremely subjective in nature, on often times two people who are just very different in composition will simply be unable to adequately express their ideas in a mutually comprehensible fashion. Some people are just not good at simplifying what they experiece.

I could tell you all about my adventures with the time/space curvature of post-memory in technical details, and you'd probably think I was nuts as well. Truth of the matter is, we have to speak about things which don't translate into words easily in terms of metaphor and allegory, otherwise the details are lost in an inadequate attempt to confine ideas that transcend physical experience and structured communication all together, to a conversation spoken in words.

I've misjudged a few eccentric occultists as crazy until I experienced what they had tried to explain, and realized that i also couldn't have explained it to someone.

Try to find common ground in the basics with someone who seems like a crazy. usually if you go from there, you can make a better assesment.

Now, teenagers claiming to levitate, fight demons, and kill their enemies with their brains, should be carefully examined. Most adults, fortunately, grow out of that sort of thing eventually - teenagers, at least in my experience, are the ones most likely to make wild claims about paranormal experiences.

peace