Time for show and tell, people!
How many occult systems have you followed, and out of these, which have been the most effective? You can be as specific or vague as you'd like.
In my case, it's been chaos magick and most of the theories outlined by LaVey.
I have was baptist growing up but found that it wasnt right for me. I then tried Wicca, Celtic Christianity and found neither was right for me and have found my current religion Messianic Judaism.
Messianic Judaism has been the most effective on me for different reasons.
To answer my own question, I've tried Wicca, Christianity, Chaos Magick, and LaVeyan dark magick, as well as high and low magic-
Christianity didn't work at all for me, and in fact, usually ended up going completely wrong. I'd pray for someone's broken leg to heal, or for them to recover from a breakup without any major issues, and they'd die a horrific, long, and painful death. (This actually happened SEVERAL times... wow.)
According to the priest, it was God's will. I then decided learned that Christianity wasn't for me and stopped praying, which, in retrospect, could be considered somewhat of a public service.
After that, I moved on to Wicca, which worked occasionally, but not as often as I'd have liked. I just didn't have much of a personal connection with it. However, I stuck with it for awhile, and it served as a wonderful nesting ground for me before I ventured out into more varied, less mainstream occult paths.
From there, I took a step into the worlds of Discordianism and Chaos magick- which have had the highest success rate so far, and have kept me fairly happy. As of late, I've mixed them in with LaVeyan Satanism, with a near 100 percent success rate- and naturally, I'm thrilled.
I have tried Catholic which I was basically raised on.
Christianity, Spiritualist Church and many other structured religions.
I found my home in Wicca.
Catholic, Wicca, now Agnostic.
I feel better without having a religion to follow.
I'm non-religious, I have no religion.
I follow no groups.
I simply look inward and find all of my answers. My occult path is my scientific research, the other half of science that no one has discovered yet.
I explain the unexplained, I understand it well.
i was rasied to try things on my own
i have tried many what has worked best for me is wicca and vamprism to a degree
*Clears throat* Are you all suggesting that within your posts your opinions are calling religious paths IE Christian, Catholic, Pagan, etc. Occult paths?