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The mediumistic condition is not one to be admired and valued, as so many spiritists believe. On the contrary, it is one to be avoided by every seeker after the higher life. It will bar his way to that life or it will drag him away from it. For it allows the will to be paralysed, the capacity for self-control to be lost, the mind to be surrendered to someone else's domination, and the eyes to be shut to where one is going. Such a condition is the very opposite of that sought by philosophical mysticism. It is as degrading as it is dangerous.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 13 : The Occult > # 115