Soft Occultism

It’s easy to have a laugh at the obvious consumerism behind all this woo-woo, Ouija-board spiritualism. But it’s a mistake to dismiss the tacky and often silly mystical drapery without considering the genuine longing for meaning that it conceals. The new, default spiritual identity for young people in the West is soft occultism, or casual witchery. This identity can easily accompany an existing religious affiliation, and often does since it is so obviously integrated in most aspects of modern Western culture. Generation Z has the same spiritual appetite as our ancestors, but we lack the infrastructure to exercise it.