We give our energy to “creating good memories” then reminisce to fill ourselves.
We give our energy to idols then contemplate them to fill ourselves.
They both feel like batteries. And because we share some collective mind, mystical cultures have dedicated idol-smiths who create and charge idols for the benefit of us all. And I think they create and charge them with feelings, insights, energy levels that are foreign to our individual conscious experience. So, like art, they allow us to download the experience of someone who had a deeper conscious experience of life.
New age magick that uses pop-culture is harnessing forms and pop culture idols that have already taken our energy, usually in childhood when we were not conscious of this exchange, and using them consciously to reclaim that energy.