Acharya Prashant addresses the question of why people are so easily convinced by concepts like vibrations, energy, and other superstitious or pseudo-scientific ideas. He begins by stating that to understand how to convince others, one must first understand why this phenomenon occurs. The core of the issue, he explains, is that we do not lead lives of truth. Instead of starting from what is real and obvious, we rely on theories. While our own existence is an indisputable fact, we do not live with sharpness, understanding, equity, depth, or insight. We often do not even understand the reasons behind our own actions, such as our career choices, marriages, or personal preferences, and consequently, we move through life in a haze. Over time, we become accustomed to this hazy vision and random movement. It ceases to bother us, and we lose the inclination to question our own lives. The urge to know, the curiosity, and the spirit of inquiry are lost. Furthermore, we develop stakes in this falsehood. Questioning our life becomes dangerous because it would expose the falseness of everything we have heavily invested in. Facing the reality that our investments—be it in relationships, careers, or beliefs—have been a waste requires courage that most people lack. To avoid this, we allow the false to continue, pretending it is the truth, which becomes our default mode of functioning. We start living entirely false lives, where being mistaken is not just an error in one area like spirituality, but our preferred way of being. The consciousness itself becomes mistaken at its core. The more mistaken we are, the more we want to remain so, as our world is built upon these mistakes to which we are attached. This ecosystem of self-deception is where fraudulent spiritual teachers thrive. They are sharp enough to see that the population is ready and even begging to be fooled. The primary culprit is not the deceiver but the common person who is already living a life of self-deception. When one is so inclined to deceive oneself, others will inevitably come to deceive them. We are to be blamed first, and others later. This applies even to educated individuals like scientists and intellectuals, who may be experts in their external fields but lack self-knowledge. Science can become just a profession, and one can research external phenomena without ever looking inward. It is a superstition to believe that science or rationality can eradicate superstition. The opposite of a superstitious mind is not a scientific mind, but a spiritual mind. The fundamental superstition is the ego itself—the belief that it exists when it does not. The ego is inherently superstitious because it is the first superstition. Therefore, one should not accept things easily; the default response should be 'no'. Acceptance must come at a price, and only when something is proven worthy should one say 'yes'.