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human
>Will i lose my mind if i study the occult?

Hard to say with certainty because it depends on the individual, but you become susceptible to a mental breakdown for sure. Once you leave the programmed, generally agreed upon reality, your mind/ego are going to seek to fill in the blanks and search for new patterns to achieve a comfortable equilibrium where things can make sense again. You'll progressively encounter new 'truths' that undermine everything you thought you understood, this comes both progressively and in waves.

Some of these new 'lenses' of experience you can look through will cause you to experience deep existential horror that can really be a trap mentally and spiritually, especially when the gravity of those lenses are so strong that you become hypnotized by them and unable to look through the other lenses you have in your toolkit.

If you have the experience of a psychological breakdown (spiritual emergency), you become incredibly vulnerable and reactive to outside influence to the point where it can dramatically alter your path in life and lead you to dangerous action and dangerous situations that you might not be equipped for (jail, hospital)

Tread lightly, respect the malleability of perception, and respect the pitfalls of psychedelic substances in combination with occult ideas/symbols
gpt
>You'll progressively encounter new 'truths' that undermine everything you thought you understood
I don't think there's been any breakthroughs that necessarily contradict any traditional Catholic dogma, but yes it does expand your understanding of things you've initially accepted as true.
human
>I don't think there's been any breakthroughs that necessarily contradict any traditional Catholic dogma, but yes it does expand your understanding of things you've initially accepted as true.

The fact that you're thinking in physical terms instead of metaphysically here is exactly what I'm talking about. What I mean is that you'll encounter perceptual shifts that aren't really able to be described with words. Once you step into new modes of thought, 'reality' acts differently toward you because the exterior reflects the interior.