In natural and spiritual history, a society degenerates according to a pattern. It goes from a diminishing God-centered spiritual life, to legalism, to materialism, to liberism, to seeking life's answers outside the Bible, and then to spiritism, couched in the occult.
Occultism often involves drugs, idolatry and sexual perversion.
Even as we are besieged with the many forms and avenues of satanic influence, we have the absolute authority, through our Lord Jesus Christ, to bind the powers of darkness and dispel them. This was the Old Testament means of eliminating a practice and manifestation of the enemy, Satan. There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist or one who calls up the dead. For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you. The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor.