

Struggling to Find People to Exchange Deeper Research With
I’ve been sitting with this for a while and wanted to say it carefully, because I don’t want it to come across as ego.
Lately I’ve been struggling to find people I can properly exchange ideas with at the level my research has started
reaching. I’m not saying I’m “above” anyone, and I’m definitely not claiming to have everything figured out.
It’s more that I’ve made a discovery in my own work that feels genuinely significant, and I don’t really have
many people around me who can challenge it, test it, or help me refine it without immediately dismissing it or reducing it to something simpler.
I’m looking for serious practitioners, researchers, or people who enjoy going deep into structure, symbolism, ritual mechanics, systems, correspondences, and the underlying logic behind magical work.
I don’t want praise. I want pressure-testing. I want conversation. I want people who can say, “This part is strong, this part is weak, this part needs evidence, and this part could become something real.”
Has anyone else reached a point in their practice or research where they felt isolated, not because they think they’re better than others, but because they’re working on something hard to explain?
I’d genuinely like to connect with people who are open-minded but grounded, serious but not dogmatic, and willing to explore ideas without turning it into a competition, someone who really understands the structure of magic.