Dilettants with too much time and money...looking for a cult as an umbrella for their perversions?
I think people who get involved in stuff like this think it makes them ‘special’ in some way, along with giving them an outlet for immature, puerile urges.
Probably none of them have the discipline for traditional and proven methods of ‘raising consciousness’ or increasing awareness of ‘spirit’. These are very materialistic people, who just want to play games. It also strikes me that those with interest in this kind of junk are probably terribly repressed.