One thing, you’re asking people to contact you privately, you’ll have zero scrutiny from other members if you do that (the whole community, and especially people with Regular on their title, help co-moderate this forum).
As a beginner, you may not always be able to distinguish trash from treasure, and frankly some people drawn to magick are larpers, or worse, so do as you will but I strongly recommend you read the public forum for info, rather than letting someone get you in private and start maybe bullshitting or worse.
Not saying that WILL happen, just that what’s public is less likely to cause you problems down the road.