Acharya Prashant addresses the question of why people are easily convinced by superstitious and pseudo-scientific concepts. He explains that this vulnerability stems from the fact that most people do not lead lives of truth. Instead, they live in a state of haze, moving about randomly without any real understanding or insight into their own lives, motivations, or decisions. Over time, people become accustomed to this ignorance and lose the inclination to question it. Questioning becomes dangerous because it threatens to expose the falseness in which they have heavily invested. Lacking the courage to face this reality, they prefer to maintain the status quo, allowing the false to prevail and even masquerade as truth. This state of living a false life becomes the default mode of functioning, where the consciousness itself is mistaken at its core. People become attached to their mistakes and the world they have built upon them. This ecosystem of self-deception makes them susceptible to exploitation by fraudulent spiritual teachers who are sharp enough to recognize this vulnerability. Acharya Prashant asserts that the primary culprit is not the fraudulent teacher but the common person who is already living a life of self-deception. When one is inclined to deceive oneself, others will inevitably come and deceive them. He extends this analysis to include scientists and intellectuals, stating that they are not immune to superstition. Being trained in science, which deals with the external world, does not automatically liberate one from inner falsehoods. He argues that the opposite of a superstitious mind is not a scientific one, but a spiritual one. The fundamental superstition, he concludes, is the ego itself—the belief that "I am" when, in reality, the ego is not. As long as this false self, the mother of all superstitions, remains, a person will continue to be vulnerable to all other forms of superstition.