Okay, let’s just take a step back here: firstly, ani_cat_candy, nobody is telling you what you can and cannot believe or practice - that’s simply not what’s happening.
The thing is you have a distinct and self-created method of practicing that you must have observed is somewhat outside the norms by which most experienced practicing magicians think.
However you judge that situation, the problem arises when you attempt to advise other people, some of whom are in the middle of major life events that can have lasting consequences, to do things under your own unique paradigm which is largely unsupported and unverified by the greater body of magickal work at this time.
This is the purpose of using phrases like “UPG” (unverified personal gnosis) when describing some new aspect of a spirit, new method of working, or some new understanding of reality. What can be valid, real and empowering inside one magician’s sphere of reality and influence may be completely ineffective or counterproductive for another.
I think most of us have some oddball stuff, whether it’s beliefs about ourselves, the nature of reality, or some really neat hack that makes sense for our worldview and would look absurd to anyone else, and that’s fine, it’s only when we start throwing our unique methods around as the answer to everyone else’s problems that it gets controversial.
When I decided to try drawing aspects of my Higher/Daemonic Self down into the form of a deceased movie star, a pretty far-out piece of work, I documented the process of creation and a few bits and pieces about that, and left people open to decide how much (if any) of what I did, and the clearly-explained concepts behind it, would be of any use to them.
However, if someone on here has a problem, I don’t automatically suggest they reach for a poster of Marilyn or Clark Gable, chuck in some soul-energy, and all will come to rights for them - I go to the over-reaching concept that building relationships with spirits that you can trust is good, because that’s a widely supported idea from almost every path that people can apply to their own experience and beliefs, without needing to dive into my personal reality or accept the shitload of concepts I have that made that particular operation a logical step for me.
That make sense?
If no-one ever pushed the boundaries of magick or tried anything new and experimental, we’d be as hidebound as any religion and as prone to falling into irrelevancy; but still, any pioneering method of working carries risks - one of the main ones for experimental magick is mistaking the form in which something presents to us for the substance, when we’re really only just grasping the part that our own minds have happened upon, so that’s another reason to have an awareness of conventional methods and practices that are known to be effective, and to remember the form something takes for us may work in our reality but not for anyone else in the exact same way.