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

Awhile ago I was talking to a guy who I know from another occult site, he seemed to know what he was talking about, until...the next time i met him was on myspace, it had been awhile since I talked, however, he didn't seem as sane was he was then, he talked about how he was a member of a races of being created by a race known as the elders and how he himself is made up of million entities, talked about how asouls could be destroyed and never come back and then claimed they everybeing in the multiverse was going to go back to sue. He also claimed that a being he calls mother he is the leader of his race was in a place he called "the outside" and how to created a universe(the universe creating part was the only thing that interested me) of he talked about before talking aboutt he other stuff.

This post has been edited by Radiant Star: Nov 6 2006, 02:38 AM