Has anyone written a beginner witchcraft book that pranks you into critical thinking?
Like, I’m imagining an introduction that’s everything you’d expect. Magic is a tool for self-empowerment and ritual has changed the lives of many etc etc etc- but there’s a postscript to it that says something like “listen. You don’t need to know any of what I’m going to tell you to be practitioner. But if you’re going to interact with this community, you need critical thinking. So let’s play a game. One of these chapters is total bullshit backed by zero research and stated as fact despite the reality being it’s all my UPG. Your goal is to figure out which.” But each chapter seems like it’s juuuuust personal enough/over-general enough/cheesy enough/upg stated as fact that you check the sources (all provided) walk it through skeptically, etc etc etc but the thing is EVERY chapter has a little bit of BS woven in, leaving you confused and annoyed, probably. At the end it simply tells you “this is the true challenge. It’s not enough to identify one text that’s total bullshit and avoid that. It’s about identifying the little bits of BS that sneak into everything,”
(Also someone else write this I don’t have fricking time)
