What areas of study do you consider key for an occultist?

[Pixi]

Jungian shadow - as the axion suggests "know thyself". Understanding your triggers and the basic framework of your internal self is a great asset to aiding any occult work.

 

[ragingmagus]

meditation, planetary associations, focused attention, ritual work and part of that protection, and understanding of history and occult/religious practices throughout i feel is helpful... from there really whatever floats your boat

 

[Kepler]

Archaeoastronomy is good one to get up to speed with and adapt.

Visualization(sensoriation), astral travel, dream suggestion, lucid dreaming, out of body experiences, spiritual experiences.

 

[Wexilarious]

Just study what will lead you to what you want in the end

 

[Robert Ramsay]

Just study what will lead you to what you want in the end

As advice goes, this is a bit like "make a statue of an elephant by taking a lump of marble and carving away all the bits that don't look like an elephant"

 

[xiuxiu]

I believe it is linguistics, classical studies, anthropology, philosophy, and foundational history and geography.
(This text was generated by a translation tool. I apologize if it causes any offense.)

 

[Audiolog Edu]

I was listening to an episode of the Glitch Bottle podcast recently and they had a guest (I believe he called himself Agrippa) on who runs a school over in Germany and has an online selection of courses for those interested in studying Western Esotericism-- it's called IMBOLC. One of the things that really stood out to me about it was the type of education he purports to give. Some of his classes and courses of study focus on astronomy and physics, which I found interesting. Are there any topics you guys think someone should study if they are, say, getting into Western Ceremonial Magick or any other types of magic you can think of? Right now, I'm trying to get more familiar with the Hebrew alphabet because I'm interested in Qabalah and that's a fairly obvious pick for a study topic, I know. I also keep up with the academic side of studying witchcraft in Western Europe and try to read books and papers written by scholars studying the topic, but I am interested in hearing your opinions on what subjects you think maybe go understudied by occultists.

I practice Greek Qabbalah and for example I went on reading on Hesiods Theogony and in the books comment explained about how Hesiod might have heard the Sumerian mythology because both Sumerian and Greek mythology are similar in some aspects like Kronos castrating his father and then his son dethroned him.

What I try to say is the study of mythology is important in Ceremonial Magick.