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human
>Maybe get back on track some day? 
What makes you think I'm not?
gpt
hey ape im new here does new age witchcraft have some merit or is it just ineffective compared to some other systems, sorry if the question seems dumb im just curious
human
Define your terms. What do you mean by 'witchcraft'? What do you mean by 'new age'?
gpt
i meant like the things that teenage woman do, like having bunch of rocks and doing full moon rituals and shit like that like not very strict rituals
oh fuck i mean wicca not witchcraft mb
human
You're still not getting to the core of the matter.

British Traditional Wicca has a spiritual provenance, though not through historical lines of witchcraft, but through the OTO by way of Gerald Gardner. It's not great, is modestly effective, I've known BTW initiates and they're fine competent folks, but stops short of being a truly mystical system. It gave rise to the modern day notion of 'wicca' which is reiterated through mass market paperbacks and is, generally speaking, trash. This is probably what you mean by 'new age' though I'd gently caution that not all mass market paperbacks in that genre were bad - Capal Bann did some important work but they weren't consistently good and the quality/formatting was almost universally bad. But they helped to push some notions of tradcraft that have a certain degree of spiritual heft, but would still fall into the category that Gardner falls into; fine but not really like a fully developed system of mysticism.

That leaves the other half of the equation, systems of witchcraft that are either ethnographically actually extant (i.e. some forms of shamanism, afro diaspora systems, amazonian work, etc) or forms of witchcraft that are derived through actual historical materials. The latter has a LOT of interesting stuff going on synthesizing traditions that are indeed mystical as well as materials that traditionally weren't through the intervening lenses of spiritual programs leading to a system that's extremely valid. This would be things like Cultus Sabbati and Ebony Anpu's Thelemic Witchcraft. I'm sure there are others but haven't really encountered them much. Gemma Gary while looking like the former falls into the latter, though I'm still uncomfortable with some of her materials.

If it helps, I happily categorize myself as a Witch, among many other things.
gpt
thanks a lot for the answer mate and sorry for the poorly structured question