The Importance Of Context by Windvexer – Non-Fiction

There’s something else I really can’t get off my mind, which is — Occult knowledge loses so much value when it’s stripped from its context. There is so much watering down of occult knowledge and a major part of that is that nobody seems to know where anything comes from.

Taking what someone writes, copy/pasting that info onto a separate platform, and refusing to share who actually wrote it, is actively deteriorating the pool of occult knowledge. You aren’t “archiving” or “saving” anything. You’re muddying the waters.

Acting like you can stripmine people’s beliefs for what looks good to your followers, or what makes you seem like you’re knowledgeable, is functionally “core witchcraft” in the vein of “core shamanism.” You’re saying context, beliefs, culture, spirituality, and community don’t matter – all that matters is a ritual or technique split from its source.

How can you claim to be a helper to the community when you are feeding people stolen knowledge stripped from its own necessary context? Trying to maintain my own context on this platform with my name attached to everything is difficult enough. Like last year, when I was kicking and screaming about how my witchcraft is not paganism.

And not to mention, like … People should be able to avoid individuals in the community they don’t like. Imagine if someone is deeply uncomfortable with devil-adjacent witchcraft, and due to their spiritual beliefs, doesn’t want to work with anything written by a diabolist.

And then someone comes along and copy/pastes my posts about reading tarot, or energy work, or other content that I learned by working with a devil. And now, the context is lost that this content was learned by channeling a devil entity, and people may work with it who would never, ever choose to engage with that material if they knew where it came from.

That’s messed up, right? Like, idk. I truly do not understand how hard it is to copy/paste the URL. You’re already there copying paragraphs of text at a time. Why would you not want people to know where information comes from?