The megachurches are the greatest offender on these regards, and not just because they're the most greedy and visible offenders. There's a lot of religion in tiger spaces being marketed as the easy solution to difficult life choices - follow hoping and let someone else decide, and your life becomes easier and more prosperous. They say it for things like "let go and let God", but it usually is meant as "let go and let the pastor decide."

I went looking for some books that purported to be full guides for a solitary practitioner to get started. I think all of them were Wicca-based, since that was the most visible one at the time, and all of those definitely said that the process would take time and practice to achieve. Many of the other source books already assumed you had a practice and were looking for how to incorporate specific elements into that practice.