Beware of pseudo-spiritual people. They are pests. Avoid meeting them; avoid talking to them. It would be far better for them to become out-and-out materialists than to go on deceiving either themselves or others with their wordy but fake spirituality. Under this heading I include also the spiritualists, the occultists, the psychics, and the "mental science" demonstrators. These people move through a fog of fake uplift. It is useless to try to give these people that which they are neither seeking nor asking for. They are not interested in finding REALITY but only its reflections and shadows. Hence, they have to be shown cosmologies, planes, occult powers, and miracles of magic. To teach Truth to such people when one is not asked for it is to commit an error with results that will act as a scourge to oneself. They themselves are always ready to teach anybody at any moment. We must be far wiser. We shall teach only when asked, only when we understand that it will do some real good, and even then only so much will be revealed as the querent is fit to take in. These pseudo-spiritual people are like living corpses, bodies which have taken on the appearance of life but are really dead.
-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 13 : The Occult > # 44
