The title is a saying from my country which applies to those people who knowingly and willingly divert attention from themselves whenever they're doing shady stuff and pointing the finger to others, accusing them of doing the exact same thing they're doing. In doing so, they're buying time to cover their tracks and maybe even lay low for a while till the storm passes, a storm they had brewed against someone else.
To get to the point, I posted my review of Señor Shaman's healing book on the stupid social media I hate so much. The first comment it got was from a lady asking me how much money I received as a gift from the author to promote his product. If the comment stopped there it would've raised credible concern in regards to the validity of my article since I posted it somewhere many people who are used to occult scams frequently go to, therefore people's paranoia levels with respect to such shady activity is high there. But no, the lady went on to say the only genuine person who does genuine shit of such and such kind is one "Señora Antonia", who's done a great deal of good for her, and even added what I imagine to be that woman's personal phone number. I imagine she hoped people would see it and immediately call that woman to book her services.
I answered back that I don't want money gifts from the author and I asked her back how much she got from that lady to post her name and number - I wonder why people don't send me ads of hoes what way. In fact, I'm the one who's supposed to send him some money in the near future and he knows what for. And no, it's not for promoting me. Moreover, he hasn't done it so far and I imagine he won't be doing it ever. I mean, if you look on his blog he's only tagged me a few times and only in articles in which he details on projects we've been doing together. I'm also not promoting him because I have yet to see anything he's got up for sale, except the book I've reviewed.
In all this time I've known him I haven't seen him post about his classes, magical or astrological services or consultation, etc. By comparison, look to the left side of my blog page and compare that to the few links of the titles he's posted on his blog. Those are titles of books he's personally contributed to and yet he doesn't go around tagging them like I'm doing, or does so to a minimum extent. He could very well teach paid classes, but I haven't come across them anywhere (unlike the limitless crap I've come across on every social media shit possible from all sorts of "highly knowledgeable and powerful magicianists" no one's really head of, except the people riding on their band wagon out of selfish needs).
On the other hand, he's been constantly sharing free information to people who have been spending great amounts of their personal money on "magical products" and "higher knowledge" offered by the "Señora Antonia's" of his neck of the woods. Fuck, the guy invited me to co-write Asteria with him and the moment it got published he started doing free astrological videos for any Spanish speaking person who can't buy the book or doesn't speak English. That's besides posting all sorts of material in which he explains old occult concepts and so on.
Likewise, yours truly has done a similar thing ever since I started walking the occult path. I started Ceremonial Magick School on stupid social media back when I was but a beginner and stuffed it with every free bit of information I encountered and shit I came to learn (hence "school") on my path so everyone who's a member there is free to use the damn search function to find it. Mind you, some of the stuff was probably deleted over time by stupid social media for no apparent reason or for reasons that have nothing to do with the actual contents of the articles. A short while ago I logged in only to be slammed by a notification telling me my post containing Scott's candle magick article was deleted due to it being false advertising... May your guts rot while being slowly eaten by AIDS infested mutant rats and you remain alive and conscious to the very end!!!
So anyway, I spent countless hours each day for several years on that stupid social media group answering people's "how's" and why's" concerning pentagrams and hexagrams and whatnot and the more I came to learn the more I answered. I had already written my first book by the time I began to offer paid magical services and I noticed some people were slowly turning their back on me. I wasn't expecting them to like and share everything I posted or commented or anything, especially stuff on my personal page, but it seemed as if I was beginning to bug some people simply because I wrote a damn book and I was casting spells for people at prices that, even today, are a bargain compared to what's out there. Same goes for the magical classes and DIY stuff I sell that you can find to the left of the page.
However, I was expecting them to notify people of what I wrote in regards to stuff those people were asking because I had made the effort to write that shit fully aware others might be interested in it in the future. What I wrote was free because I came across it for free and, besides adding my growing experience to it, I merely compiled it in a place where it was easily accessible (by using a goddamn search function). The idea behind the damn group was that people would be able to learn for free by having access to stuff that's free and discuss shit with others for free. Some copyright shit ended up in there, but it got removed.
But none of that happened in regards to stuff I posted. I imagine it was because, as I later came to notice certain patterns emerging, any such action of pointing people towards stuff I wrote was thought of as indirect advertisement I would benefit from. It went to such extent that some people started telling others you don't need XYZ (a lot of which being stuff I posted, commented about, etc.) to do magick despite the latter specifically inquiring about the subject and even directing people towards other social media areas where they were more in control.
I took care of that, eventually, but by that time I had left social media behind for good, only logging in to post about a new product I happened to put out there. The group itself had degraded badly and even now I can delete it for all I care, but I'm just leaving it there because it's still got a fuckton of good shit. People just have to search for it. It's all free.
In the mean time, I started another small cyberspace establishment called Astro Woowoo where I posted a bunch of basic shit that'll help people understand how to use astrology to improve their spells by performing them at more auspicious times. Again, that shit is free. There's only a handful of people in there and last time I checked the last post was ages ago, but anyone who's there can ask about their elections and discuss methods of improving them and shit. For free!
But yea, back to the initial subject, I haven't seen any area of life that's more full of frauds and scams in terms of provider to customer ratio than the occult. Likewise, I haven't seen this "thieves screaming thief" attitude even in the wealthy "beggars" I've been seeing around here for many years (as well as elsewhere). In fact, the "Señora Antonia" comment was but a light, benign method of applying that saying. I for one have had a few experiences that were far worse, like the one that made me start calling myself The Great Gazoo. Or one where I was accused of plagiarizing some guy who, as I've been told later on, doesn't even mention planetary hours in his work. All of this, and more, is one of the reasons why I wrote the end note in Los cielos se abren the way I did, in case anyone who buys the book will wonder.
The other reason is that I wanted people to be able to recognize such characters and avoid them, whether they're self-important, self-righteous, over inflated bubbles of swamp gas who fart out the wrong hole saying all sorts of transcendental whatnot that's practically their own UPG based on their interpretation while labelling it tradition; self-proclaimed scholars who say their magick always works while saying you don't need XYZ but without saying why or whether that shit even has benefits (because they don't know shit about it, nor do they care to understand it, or have the ability to understand it); people who advertise they're working with "real spirits" but don't know how to ask those spirits to give them a familiar; people who sell "powerful items" for quite a lot of money but that shit is nothing more than cheap Feng Shui crap I can buy for less than $5 at today's exchange rate from the corner shop; etc. As you might've noticed, I've left out the "used car salesman" type because I imagine most people have seen through the self proclaimed Impotentor's charade by now and those who haven't deserve their fate - you're anything but Golden Dawn if you're part of that alleged order, dumbasses! Just like whatever the rat's been doing that's - quoting Tim while turning it into a hashtag - #StuffLabelledStarWars is #AnythingButStarWars! Fuckheads!
Even this fucking blog contains free shit I post out there for anyone interested in taking advantage of it. Don't expect me to start doing free elections on demand though, because that can be time consuming and there are people out there who are charging for these things (for good reasons). The same applies if you start asking me questions which I'd only be able to answer by explaining most of Asteria to you. But if you read through this blog enough I think you'll eventually be able to take one of these elections and apply it to your location.
Furthermore, I didn't spend my time on stupid social media virtue signaling about race and gender or political shit to draw attention to myself. I did make fun though, and my jokes usually bare a heavy sexual connotation (see above) and more than often I'm too much for people, but I'm not forcing anyone to pay more attention to me than they want to. In fact, I'm not forcing them to pay any attention to me at all.
In conclusion, while the minor incident I addressed at the beginning doesn't even deserve a quick laugh, I decided to write this article as a sort of continuation of my initial occult customer awareness so that people who are looking for either occult services or knowledge and information to improve their own work would become even more aware of the more or less covert machinations many are (desperately) doing to draw as much money their way as possible, probably because they're too fucking lazy and/or under qualified to have an actual job with an actual, constant income. (Despair is bad, morons!)
Now, it's true that taking mundane actions to improve your spells increases your chances of success and I've discussed that in Magic Words. But one has to wonder how powerful your magix are if you have to resort to all sorts of shit to increase your income instead of simply using upfront advertising. You can even advertise here for far less than what ad sites ask ;) Or do like me and just sit on your ass doing nothing of the sorts.
Food for thought.
Hate on, dum-dums!
The Great Gazoo
PS: If you're wondering about the copyright thing at the bottom of the page, know Señor Shaman gave me the code suddenly and told me to add it. I had no idea how this thing works so I asked him. Seems like a very good and useful thing to have, considering the climate inside the occult universe.
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