Lurking is not just about gathering facts from an encyclopedia. There are better ways to keep your brain in good shape, for example, you can try to memorize the phone book.
Knowledge, or rather the way it is interpreted, understood and applied, allows one to develop a certain way of thinking and acting in a given culture and mystical context. Without this deeper understanding, this knowledge can become just empty, nuejejay-esoteric gibberish, of the "light a pink candle and think of love as from a soap opera" type, which are everywhere present on the Internet and esoteric publications.
Now we've come to my favorite topic - nuevo.
I would like to emphasize that I consider magic in the context of the relationship between the mind and feelings, consciousness.
How you approach the question of working on the mind depends on whether you are talking about training the mind or the brain.
I am talking about the mind in a broader context, related to consciousness, so perhaps we are talking about different things. If I understand you correctly, and I'm not sure I do, you're talking about adjusting reality, transforming it only at the level of thinking, that is, adjusting yourself to reality.
I think that not everyone who lights these candles should be condemned in the context of nuevo.
It seems that their magic is peculiar, because they strongly believe in these candles.
I'm talking about changing reality at a level beyond our mind or consciousness.
Candles are not needed to tell or suggest anything to oneself.