Religion and spirituality now occupy a place in popular culture similar to the place once occupied by the recovery movement. There's not much difference, after all, between believing in various paranormal phenomenons and believing in God, especially when you consider the place of miracles in Western religion. We take for granted the belief that Christ rose from the dead or that God parted the Red Sea for Moses.
Supernaturalism is essential to Western religion.
I suspect that you'd be hard pressed to find any society in any historical period that was not drawn to the supernatural or paranormal, in some form. And, many people do enjoy mystical experiences that instill and confirm religious beliefs. I have experimented with it, with some success, but I can't account for that success. I may simply have benefited from a placebo effect. I take seriously the contempt for homeopathy expressed by many scientists, just as I take seriously the fact that it seemed to have worked for me.