Do You Ever Meet Some People Into The Occult And Genuinely Believe They Are Insane? Options

I meet some "new agers" and magi of sorts every once in a while...

Sometimes they are thoughtful people....

But I do meet people I believe to be...troubled. Is it really just me? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused012.gif)

Not at all. At times I help out in my local occult shop when the owner has other things that need attending to. You meet some absolutely A-grade whackos that come in spouting all kinds of nonsense, not just in terms of being ill-informed, but clearly mental to boot. Interestingly though, I must say that in all fairness the really serious practitioners tend to be more sober. It is those who have occult and new age subjects as a fringe interest who tend to be bonkers as well.

...as a fringe interest who tend to be bonkers as well.

This is true of any given religion. It is the fringe believers who turn out to be the extremists. Many mistake the religions or occult practices as dynamics of paradigm rather than paths to find your own; it is in this that this said "many" tend to act out of desperation of tribalistic tendencies, believing themselves and their beliefs to be in a state of anomic distress.

Translation: Fringe-People think "their way" is "the way things are" rather than "the way to find out how things are." Because of this, people fight over petty differences.