Is this a good introduction to occultism/esotericism or should is there something better to get into the medium?

It is a very bizarre mix of westernized bastardizations of eastern religion, modern psychoanalysis, and various psychological practices. It is an interesting book no doubt, but the author really lacks any sort of genuine metaphysical knowledge. It is overall an obsession with the psychic over the spiritual. He essentially claims that the human mind is continually evolving and can reach a point in which it is no longer limited by human constraints. I will say that I have retained some of the exercises he gives the reader, but there are much better works to read for such things.
The entire book seems to fit exactly with the western tendency for "becoming" instead of "being"; it is nothing less than an application of Darwinism to the spiritual domain.

>but there are much better works to read for such things

like?

The Bible

Getting a spiritual teacher that isn't a crypto-materialist is a good start.

depends if you're the mark or the hustler.

Not him but literally where do I find one?

Right here. Send me your email and a beginners fee of $500 to cover my costs initiating you.

Matthew 13:35 King James Version (KJV)
35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.

Prometheus Rising isn't directly about occultism. It's about expansion of consciousness OR becoming one's true self OR de-robotizing one's self OR exploring and gaining access to the vast palace that is the human mind OR re-programming and meta-programming the human bio computer OR achieving "stream entry" OR achieving permanent increase of blood flow to the prefrontal cortex OR any other term or metaphor used to describe this phenomenon.
which certainly is the best part of any occult tradition.

This is the Truth, and really the only correct answer.

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This argument might work if this thread was about dipshit atheist but even the deepest of LARPing witches will usually attest the great power of the name of christ to banish demons in the astral plane or whatever

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hehehe, it wasn't "an argument". I thought it was amusing the way you presented a very firmly dogmatic sentence in a thread about prometheus rising, which is chiefly about freeing your mind from dogma.
As you say, Christianity can be very powerful, but I now believe I don't need to be dogmatic to enjoy the blessings of Mary, Jesus, or the saints.
I think Jesus would be really into Bob Wilson. The things he is saying couldn't possibly have been digested by iron age palestinian peasants, they get too slippery around the edges. But we've come a long way. Ideas aren't like physical objects. Thoughts aren't like actions. We can be a bit more... sophisticated? In the way we deal with these virtual objects.

>Ideas aren't like physical objects.
Interesting since occultism helped me realize the inverse of this.

>He ISNT the mark AND the hustler of his own self actualization spell

never gonna make it bro

Yes unironically

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story time

Start with

Picatrix
Eliphas Levi's Occult Philosophy
Crowley's Book 4

certainly there are differences and similarities.
Ideas have the same degree of reality as physical objects, certainly.
I was talking about the way we can manipulate ideas, dissect them, splice them, cut them up and get all up in their guts, but this is a completely non-destructive process, and at the end you can come back to the idea as-is, and then finally reject it or accept it, partially or totally, half- or wholeheartedly, etc.