Witchcraft Communes Growing as Women Seek Spiritual Alternatives to Christianity

A Guardian exposé highlights a significant surge in women, particularly feminist and progressive circles, joining witchcraft retreats and communes across the US and Europe, with some retreats costing up to $5,200 per attendee. This trend reflects a deepening spiritual vacuum left by secularism and atheism, with growing numbers turning to occult practices rather than orthodox faith — a pattern Scripture explicitly warns will intensify in the last days. The Apostle Paul directly foretold this departure: 'The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons' (1 Timothy 4:1), while 2 Timothy 3:1-4 warns of a people who are 'lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.'