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Rachel Wilson’s Occult Feminism has sparked fierce debate over feminism’s historical roots, Christianity’s role, and the ideological forces shaping modern womanhood.

What happened to Rachel Wilson’s book Occult Feminism should have made headlines.

It didn’t.

Amazon allegedly shafted physical copies of the book in 2023 and suspended the Kindle version.

A Book They Tried to Silence

Despite the virtual book burning, media coverage was non-existent.

Writing about the incident in 2023, Wilson said, “Bad actors falsely reported it as stolen intellectual property.”

Wilson disputed their accusations, and Amazon restored the ebook two years later.

“Very long story short,” she announced on X in May 2025, “angry feminists falsely reported it as not being my intellectual property in an effort to blacklist it.”

“I was able to prove that it was mine, and it’s back!”

Tracing the Occult Roots of Feminism

The reason for the underhanded anonymous opposition is twofold. First, the book explores “the Luciferian occult roots of feminist ideology.”

Second, Wilson hates feminism, and as her Substack biography states without apology, also thinks that [the movement] “destroyed society.”

The book, she said in a recent talk with Jonathon Pageau, is the product of two and a half years of meticulous study that goes back to the 1700s.

“I kept noticing a thread time after time that almost all the influential women and even the men who were around them had dabbled in some type of occult practice.”

This had to be the theme, Wilson recounted telling her husband, “Because it’s the one thread that I’m finding through all these women.”

They had two things in common: “One was occult practice, and the other was abandoning their family.”

There were some exceptions, she clarified, “but almost all of these women would abandon their husbands and children to pursue this activism even in the 1800s.”

Those influenced by the movement included Wizard of Oz creator Lyman Frank Baum, who popularised the notion of the “good witch”.

Further proof of the occult’s connection to feminism is the movement’s hatred of Christianity, Wilson explained.

For women like Baum’s mother-in-law, Matilda Joslyn Gage, “Christianity was the mechanism for enslavement of women for all of human history.”

“Christianity was just a tool for oppression.”

Gage was also a Theosophist who incorporated paganism and Native American spiritualism into her beliefs and abortion activism.

Abortion, Family and the Battle for Female Freedom

Abortion ritualism and claims to abortion being a “religious right” is another common theme, Wilson said.

For example, “Indigenous religions believe that abortion can be ritualised and used for magic purposes.”

She added that these beliefs tend to lean towards “female empowerment in the spiritual sense.”

This is a large reason why “the only freedom feminism really cares about is abortion.”

Women can have all the same equal rights as men, and it won’t be enough.

True female empowerment for the feminist is “abortion with zero limits.”

Abortion is “the only metric by which they measure women’s liberation,” Wilson told Pageau.

Moving on to responses to the book, Wilson said, she’s got fans of it who are witches and Satanists, telling her, “Yes, she’s right that we deserve the credit for abortion, for breaking up the family.”

Clearing the air, she added, just to be clear, “I’m not some crazy religious lady out here telling you everything’s the devil. I’m telling you what they say.”

“And what they say is ‘We wanted to destroy the family because it’s patriarchal. We wanted abortion on demand without any restriction. Yes, we want depopulation.”

Feminists state that “they want women to have power through destroying men’s seed when and where they see fit.”

Wilson said, “That’s the source of their power.”

“They think that not just politically, but spiritually.”

Its branches include Marxism, right up to the 1970s “goddess worship revivals.”

Such as the image of Mother Earth being plagued by males, with the view that men are “inherently violent and destructive.”

“They eat meat. They pollute the planet with their capitalist endeavours. They colonise. This male white colonist oppressor versus Mother Earth.”

Wilson then explained that this is why you see links from Veganism to socialism and communism.

100-years ago, “Fabian socialism and veganism were very popular together.”

This stuff isn’t new, she remarked.

“People think that feminism is like this innocent, well-meaning grassroots movement where women just wanted more choice.

“That’s not true.”

“What feminism has actually done is taken away a lot of choice for women,” Wilson said.

“If you want to stay home and raise five kids, that’s really tough to do with the way society is set up now.”

Pageau’s title summarising Wilson’s conclusions was apt: feminism is the political arm of witchcraft.

An Uncomfortable Challenge to Christian Feminism

A prolific Orthodox Christian commentator, Wilson recently clashed with professional antagonist Brian Shapiro. Shapiro took issue with some of the book’s claims, referencing it in an April 2026 UNC debate.

Perhaps just as notoriously, Wilson, a mother of five, has also clashed with Lauren Southern over Southern’s break with the “trad wife” movement.

So hard-hitting are the facts Wilson uncovers about the occult’s relationship to the rise of feminism, Joe Rogan gave her a two-hour spot on his podcast in February.

Two days later, that interview caught the attention of veteran streamer Steven Crowder.

He recapped the Rogan chat, introducing Wilson as someone who is “incredibly well-read on the history of feminism.”

Highly recommending her book, Crowder added, “It seems like one of those things that’s clickbait, but it’s not.”

Noting Wilson’s evidence-based argument about feminism’s occult roots being antithetical to Christianity, he said, “It’s an uncomfortable conversation to have.”

When closing, Crowder then declared, “You cannot be a Christian feminist in the year 2026, and ignorance is no defence.”

Wilson’s Occult Feminism currently has a 4.4 rating on Amazon, with over 570 reviews.