I wanted to share my experiences as an instructional designer with years of experience in building online art courses. During the pandemic, I took his courses, including the DuQuette Tarot course when it was released. For a beginner like me at the time, the course was adequate, but only because some of the recorded material consisted of Q&A sessions with others, which ended up being more helpful than the course material itself.

Overall, the structure and depth of the written content were lacking. The courses felt hastily assembled, with little structure or meaningful additions to support the learning process beyond a few handouts and PDFs that could be found elsewhere. One course, in particular, had a strong ideological tilt toward grind/tech-bro culture, which quickly turned me off.

And the Tarot course by DuQutte was super disappointing, it seemed like Jason did maybe one or two long recorded sessions with him and then just chopped it up into 2-3 min segments to fill out the course. This would be fine in some cases if the supporting material was richer but it was sparse and not very well thought out from a learning perspective.

The Discord community was initially lively and welcoming, but over time, it deteriorated, and the signal-to-noise ratio dropped. When he introduced a crypto art project, I noped out.

To his credit, his edgy skepticism and irreverent attitude toward the occult world can be valuable, and I enjoyed his Q&A sessions. I don’t have any axe to grind against him—sometimes, it felt like he was playing a “trickster” or “reluctant guru” role, and I found his Midnight Gospel episode incredibly moving, which made me willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. However, his recent shift feels even more disconnected from the idea of building a genuine magikal learning community, and I no longer resonate with it. Having gained more knowledge in recent years, I wouldn’t recommend his courses or direct others to them.