pro tip: if a practitioner writes someone off as being non-legit/lying just because they don’t follow their own ideas of what the Practice should look like and when, they’ve still got some personal work to do.
some people start deity work early. that’s okay. if they’re being safe and done their research then it’s not your problem. i’m really tired of this how long you practice = how advanced you are narrative. YES experience is great. but people move at different paces.
i have met practitioners of two to three years that i look up to because they have done more research than me. i have met practitioners of 20 years that have no fucking clue what they’re doing because they decided they have no more to learn.
the idea that YEARS = good research, critical thinking, etc is a joke. i’m not out here saying experience doesn’t matter. it does. but stop discounting people’s Practices because you feel like they’re doing it wrong/they didn’t do it the way you did.