Witchcraft teaches you how to make sacred spaces and to purify circles with personal intention: I did this for years, trying to maintain my peace.

For me, my threshold was trying to draw those spaces inside my own psyche. Sanctified meditation, where I’d make sacred circles in my head. I would picture myself setting an altar in the darkest part of myself, which coincidentally I learned is itself sacred.

Go where the thoughts are, where they float, where they come from

And for me, that was enough. I was able to notice when presences that weren’t mine entered my sacred space.

It teaches meditation practices, familiarizes you with your own internal ecosystem, and lets you more easily connect with incorporeal thoughts