former occultist here. I used to be part of a prominent 'order' that was founded by Aleister Crowly. I ask for forgiveness from GOD for straying from the path and GOD came to me in the form of YHWH (aha!) and I never went back to the left hand path.
Anyway.. these people are really effective. It's all about inching people towards pure degeneracy. They find out who you are, whether straight, gay, married, parents, student, boss, etc. Then they try to slowly break you. The reason I left is because one of the FIRST rituals they wanted me to perform involved a sexual act with a woman who wasn't my girlfriend. I refused and that was the end of it. They've been lightly tracking and following me ever since, but since I never talked about them in public, I have never been harmed.
It always starts the same way. It doesn't matter why you want to join. For me, it was the search for answers to universal answers. I wanted to know God. But, the way they see it is that you have all these self-imposed and society-imposed restrictions that are holding you back from understanding your true self.
An example of this is watching gore videos. At first, it's impossible, but you find ones that you can handle and before you know, you're watching a beheading while smoking a bowl and have no feelings about it.
These rituals are the same. They convince you that in order to be God, you must detach from 'human concerns' (hence the Bohemian Grove 'Cremation of Care'). If one of those concerns is being faithful to your wife, they will convince you to have sex with another woman to 'free yourself'. If you're straight, it's 'now you must make love to a man to free yourself from sexual restrictions'. If you're moral, it's 'now you must hurt this person to free yourself from fear of changing the world around you'. If it's altering your perception, they give you hallucinogens. If it's God, they summon demons. If it's family, they make you see your parents as fodder.
Now imagine all these politicians, journalists, artists. They are losers who want to be successful and powerful and the first thing they learn in DC is ' you have to be a part of something'. To them, the rituals are just part of the initiation, but sure enough, they change and become numb to degenerate shit. It's not a long trip from cheating on your girl, to making out with a dude, to hooking up with an 18 y/o, to hooking up with a 15 y/o and so on.
These people are truly evil and truly attempting to be Gods. That's why they have that arrogance. They think their demons are protecting them from harm. They truly believe that their magick can prevent them from ever being caught.
THIs is a spiritual war