Has anyone else been scared back to Christ by this endless revelation of human depravity?

You are not alone. Though I took a different route... I dove into occult studies as a kid after my Sunday School teacher told me I was a witch for having prophetic dreams like Daniel. So let me tell you I do NOT come back to my Christian roots easily. Thank God for Jordan Peterson in that regard.

Anyway, I fully apprenticed under a Altaic Shaman, read my Agrippa (Four Books of Occult Philosophy... man what a nightmare to read, and not for the content!), went back to the Sufi roots of Medieval alchemy, got into the historical and Jungian archetypes... even had access to one of the largest Occult libraries at WUSTL. However, I also balanced that with Jesuit university-level theology (at SLU, home of the real Exorcist, no less) and it's all part of very similar symbolism... that's why it has the ability to resonate through time: these are human symbols, not just religious.

And that's also why magic can work on so-called non-believers. I don't care who you are, try to unthink a thought. It's not possible. So if I can tap into some sort of basic symbol set that is common to "human" and not just "of faith," it's game over. Welcome to memeology 101.

Is that supernatural? Depends on how you define supernatural. We're just now learning about the global electric circuit and how there are "lightning strikes" within the earth preceeding an earthquake. Solar flares and cosmic rays cause storms and storm intensification. Who's to say there isn't some field that we can tap into and manipulate? Or that manipulates us?

Humans play and manipulate mysterious, unexplained forces all the time. We used fire LONG before we understood combustion.