Acharya Prashant addresses the question of why people, including the educated and intellectual, are easily convinced by superstitious and pseudoscientific concepts. He explains that the root of this issue lies in the fact that people do not lead lives of truth. We do not live with sharpness, understanding, or insight, and we often do not even understand the basis of our own life decisions, such as our career choices or marriages. We become accustomed to living in a haze and lose the inclination to question our state. Over time, we develop stakes in this falseness, making it dangerous to question because it would reveal that our life's investments have been a waste. Lacking the courage to face this reality, we let the falseness continue, and it becomes our default mode of functioning. This ecosystem of self-deception creates a fertile ground for fraudulent spiritual teachers. These teachers, being sharper than the common person, recognize that the population is ready to be fooled and is, in a way, begging to be cheated. They know people's weaknesses and how to manipulate them, allowing them to get away with any conceptual tomfoolery without being questioned. The speaker clarifies that even scientists are not immune to this, as worldly knowledge, like science, is not the same as self-knowledge. One can be an expert on the external world but remain ignorant of their own inner tendencies, desires, and fears. The opposite of a superstitious mind is not a scientific mind, but a spiritual mind. The speaker further explains that the belief that rationality or a scientific temper can eradicate superstition is itself a great superstition. The fundamental superstition is the ego itself—the belief in a false self that does not truly exist. As long as this primary superstition of the ego remains, a person is bound to be superstitious in other ways. He criticizes the notion of promoting a 'scientific temper' over a 'spiritual temper,' arguing that only a spiritual temper, which comes from rigorous self-observation and a love for truth, can truly rid one of superstition. Spirituality is an invitation to inquiry, whereas organized religion is often just a belief system. Without the courage to question one's own life and investments in falseness, one remains susceptible to all kinds of deception.