I had left my religion and was a complete materialist, but I was really into meditation and spiritual practice. I would just do mindfulness but on occasion I would branch out. If you're into meditation and yoga, and read a lot of books on the subject you are bound to come across over practices, that from my perspective at the time, were complete bullshit. Tried a lot of new age law of attraction stuff, which never worked for me.
I started noticing that I was really attracted to exoteric practice. I would get curious, practice a few things, then push it all away. At first I pushed it away because it was satanic, then because it didn't fit into a no supernatural worldview.
One day I got curious and ran into sigil magick. I cast a sigil, then change occured. I did it again, it worked, then I did it again, and it still worked. I tried some gallery of magick books, they worked as well. I realized I may have stumbled into something life-changing. I was 22, no job, living at home, no friends, life was terrible. The following year became the most productive in my life with the use of magick. Now magick is a permanent part of my life.