The mediocre student wants the best of all worlds. He wants to retain all the comfort and security of his egocentric existence, yet also experience the glamour and freedom of spiritual or energetic reality. What I call the New Age Fallacy. Unfortunately such a conflict of interests leaves him torn, and forever stuck in the mire of cowardly mediocrity. The answer to this dilemma? Sacrifice and discipline. Or get off the pot and stop wasting your teacher's time.