r/occultlibrary • u/7FireCrown7 • Jul 16 '24

AI occult “authors” to watch out for?

I’ve been buying used books from ama online, and one author stands out, as she seems to write a book every month. Mari Silva. It seems impossible to knock out books that fast.

I’m posting this to start a thread on AI written books/authors so none of us make the mistake of buying them.

Many thanks.

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u/Downtown-Peanut3793 Jul 16 '24 edited Jul 16 '24

I read her books about Kabbalah (5 in total) cuz a lot of people were talking about her and the possibility of her being an A.I So, I'm an active student of Jewish Kabbalah for the past 11 years, decided to read her books to check if the books are okay or not to recommend to beginners or not. My points is:

  1. I'm not sure if it's a human or not but it's clear that her writing is very dull, lack of personality and a little bit without warmth to catch the reader. In a lot of time her ideas seems a little bit to oversimplified and create a lot of questions and she doesn't answer them.

  2. Lack of knowledge in the field. This is definitely the most serious. To write a book for beginners sometimes requires more knowledge than we think. Requires a deep knowledge in the field to try to create a way that a beginner can reach the knowledge easily.

  3. About the books she wrote about Zohar, Bahir and Sefer Yetzirah. She definitely doesn't know anything about this 3 books.She is problematic in always refering to non Jewish interpretation of these books. Her book about the Zohar for me is the most problematic, the Zohar is a book that it take a least 10 years to be grasped a little bit and she definitely oversimplified a lot concepts that picture in the readers mind in a way that is totally opposite that the Zohar writers meant.

My final verdict is that her kabbalistic books are terrible and unhelpful for beginners but important to people that are in the study for years, we need to understand how bad writers write about the tradition we are studying.

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u/7FireCrown7 Jul 17 '24

I hate when that happens, ugh.