This is the translation of the original article by Señor Shaman. He speaks about the situation of the occult in his natal Chile, but I decided to share it because it applies to the global occult environment as well.
Pyramids, pyramids, pyramids...
No, I don't want to talk about pyramids and their energy so don't get your hopes up xD It turns out that as of lately the occult has basically become a pyramid game (Ponzi scheme), at least in Chile. I will give you the example with Reiki, but it applies to other areas as well.
20 years ago there were few Reiki practitioners here and those who had the master's degree could be counted using the fingers of one hand, so it was very different than today (probably between three and five times more different, at least). But as it turned out over time these masters trained other masters and because more people were paying for the training, the prices lowered systematically for courses as well as for services (therapies). This made it necessary for those masters to learn other "variants" of Reiki and so "personal" styles began to appear. Call them people who created their own way of doing Reiki, added something to the name and thus offered it as "a new and better way". They started offering people that product, those in turn, to others, etc. In the long run this caused that "new school" to become devalued and this is how more and more "variants" appear with more and more bombastic names: "Reiki of the Atlantean silver star unicorns" or "reiki of the dolphin telepaths of the big bear", add in aliens, ascended masters and season to taste. This is purely a marketing thing, not spirituality.