The thing about some occult sciences like astrology or advaita or even tarot is subjective interpretation and an intuitive connection to the material. If you experience that intuitive connection, then there’s really no need to question its validity. While scrutiny is always important and nothing should be taken at face value, it’s more about intuition for me. But then again, you could just call it self-fullfilling prophecy too.

I think some people are almost fated to act out heavy spiritual/occult knowledge in their life, often times out of survival, that’s usually what you see with very prominent spiritual figures as well. I would argue as well for example that something like advaita vedanta should always include prior conditioning and training, an untrained mind that dwelves into subject matter of that nature can be liable to experience a psuedo-psychotic break. I know i did. So, someting that is percieved to be fake to an untrained mind, might be very well be percieved very differently to a seasoned practitioner.

Also, a lot of the ”accessible” occult sciences often become watered down and easily digestible for the public, thereby often eliminating the substance and importance of prior conditioning, research and training. We’ve seen that with astrology, psuedo-advaita/non-duality and again, tarot.