My family's not into that. When I was 16, a lot of weird coincidences started happening in my life. I basically went from being a delinquent with an arrest record hanging out and doing random shyt, to having a lot of opportunities (but also serious struggles) put on my plate at once. It was like the universe was testing me, so I went from being an atheist to following god, who I don't follow anymore, for different reasons. At the same time, I got this self-improvement tape, and at the end, was this creative visualization where the basic idea was, you visualize something very strongly happening to you so you can literally
feel it, until it actually happens to you. 90% of the things that I visualized for that year came true.
I got more into it, and I started looking into things that bordered on New Age philosophy, which I found corny. I realized that universal love is an irrational way to view the world when bad shyt can happen to you at any time, and I stopped believing that god was good when it really hit me that billions of people are starving right now for no reason, born with poverty and diseases and shyt that they can't control, that they probably won't gain actual wisdom from, because they're too busy trying to survive instead of being able to live and grow. Then I met a person who was actually into voodoo, among other things, with Haitian blood.
They introduced me to a lot of concepts that I previously never dove into, and they were the first person I met who was into this kind of thing who wasn't just some hippy into crystals, but seemed to actually have some kind of power and have their life together. So, I got more into a lot of these subjects, and after a few years and a rollercoaster of crazy shyt (including things like, very exactly timed electrical blackouts after a ritual, as an example) where I believed in it half the time and doubted it at others, I've concluded that this shyt is real.
And if it isn't real, well, it works.