Magic attracts broken people. And it can break people. How many people do you know involved in the occult have themselves together? Not too many. Reject it all. Reject all the superstition, reject all the mystical ideas – despite it has a reality. Something like Chi occurs, something like telepathy occurs, these are models of reality.
Things get hazy in the personal reality tunnel. What happens? Obnoxious charlatans, and pricks and cunts will try to own you. They are cult leaders. These are not good people. They are not people who have overcome their own issues, their own greed, lust and ego.
They are children. Little tyrants. Little toddlers who want to use people like things. They are like kids playing with their action figures. These people must be thoroughly rejected, and their suggestions rejected as well. Your experience of spirituality should be as unique to you as your own thumb-print.
Patrick Watts 
That couldn’t be further from the truth. What you describe sounds to me like a a badly written script out of a horror movie. The term “occult” is pretty broad as well. Not everyone who follows “the occult” is/was broken, either. Actually, many people refer to the occult as something not “Christian” or even a type of religion or practice isn’t currently known.