Cetic

You will eventually have the misfortune of dealing with an NPC type that we call an archon. These are not just mindless people, but people whose existence is designed to inflict suffering and malice on genuinely spiritual people. There’s nothing inherently wrong about being an NPC or spiritually inert, but archons take it a step further and become tools of the demiurge or one of the churches dedicated to him. When their minds are destroyed, they take on insane opinions such as being zionists, anti-abortion, anti-trans or they behave in ways that target vulnerable groups of society. Some people may be misinformed and they are not necessarily archons, but you can verify with follow up questions.

Archons are not concerned with the truth or logic since their goals are simply to serve the demiurge, while a genuinely awake person operating on misinformation will consider the situation and think about it genuinely. Archons can technically be reformed to become spiritually awake again, but the effort and help they require is too intensive for a single person and this is white knight behavior, extremely impractical and wastes your time in the end.

If an archon is telling you something crazy, it’s a trap to make you lash out at them so the demiurge can feed on the negative emotions of both parties involved. In the secular society they could also be trying to set you up to say something that can be taken out of context or to make you look bad. There is no debating with an archon, even normal conversations are difficult because many aspects of their personality or even physical bodies are designed to annoy or be unpleasant to those interacting with them. The best thing that can be done is to stop interacting with them, only interact through intermediaries, or call upon the true gods of the Goetia or Qlippoth to protect you from demiurge influence.

Yahweh is evil. Those who follow him have their souls corrupted and distorted by his influence and become archons, a kind of NPC meant to preserve the existence of this prison realm. These are usually the transphobic and pro-life people but archons come in many forms depending on the time period, culture, and the best way to serve the demiurge based on who the person was before the destruction of their minds. Upon death, he will consume their souls and defecate them back into this world so he can continue to feed off of their suffering. Christianity is a trap, it has always been a trap. The same can be said for Islam and Judaism.

Save yourself, and engage in spirituality so that upon death your soul can resist the demiurge and break free from the cycles of rebirth.

Within some spiritual practices, there are some parts of it that resonate with outsiders, but they also tend to be removed from the belief systems they come from which can be offensive to those practicing them or be seen as bastardizing or desecration of their spiritual practices. I am not a person who belongs to a community whose practices can be appropriated because I only believe in open practices, but even besides the offense and social justice aspects of appropriation, there are even practical and spiritual reasons why you would not want to take from closed practices which I will list, so people have a good idea about what some problems with appropriation actually are.

1. Some practices are associated with cultural heritage that you simply cannot understand or appreciate properly if you do not come from that culture. Examples are Korean Shamanism or Native American practices. We may appreciate it as outsiders who see it, but as non-members of the culture we would not have the right context to ever practice it the same way. Deities exist to preserve culture, so appropriating as an outsider also makes no sense from that point of view anyway.

2. Some practices are literally dangerous and can potentially lead to interactions with malevolent entities. Some substances like Ayahuasca or Peyote can be physically dangerous if sacraments are not correctly prepared and can literally physically kill you even before we get to the metaphysical side of spiritual appropriation. Others can result in you being cursed or angering deities.

3. Secret societies or other groups require initiations and will take offense to the adoption of their practices without the proper procedures. The reasons above can be a part of it, but it is also disrespectful to the group itself and can result in a distortion of its practices. Practices like Kabbalah are used by outsiders and there is a gray area and controversy over what can be considered appropriation, but I would not personally facilitate them within the Cetic faith to avoid any potential problems.

If you ever find that your practices are being considered appropriative by others (This happens a lot with chakras or other concepts from Eastern mysticism) then the best way to deal with it is to figure out what you are trying to accomplish with any philosophy or practices and create/adopt something culturally appropriate but with a similar framework or goals.