And then there is a person, and that is mediumistic person. The difficulty with mediumistic person is more than with anyone else, because mediumistic person comes and says one day that: "my spirit-guide has said that you are my teacher and you are everything, and my spirit-guide has said that your path, the Sufi path, is my path." And then I say: "Yes." "And you are everything!" Then after a month he comes and says: "My spirit-guide has said that this is not the path for me." You cannot reason with him, because the same guide which has come for him, the same guide does not come. You cannot reason any more. He can even say so far as: "My spirit-guide says that this is the wrong path." You cannot say anything. One day the spirit comes and says: "You are nothing."

If there is a spirit-guide, in one hundred cases ninety-nine cases are imaginative spirit-guides. Maybe that in one case there is a spirit-guide. But if there are, ninety-nine among mediumistic people imagine that there is a spirit-guide. Besides, if everyone had to learn from spirit guides, why should Jesus Christ have come to the earth. Then the Prophet who is meant to walk on the earth would not have been sent to walk on the earth, everything, the same difficulties and troubles to go through as man. That is the Source that God has given to man to follow instead of following someone in the other world. What is the use. In that case they become dead; their faces become dead, their atmosphere becomes dead, their words become dead.

One often sees, the most advanced mediumistic people, their atmosphere is dead. Because they have to come to a point, negative point, in order to connect themselves with the other side. And therefore this dead point keeps them dead, simply dead. I wish that they would die before death in order to reach spiritual perfection, instead of dying before death to get connection with a spirit. And what do you get from the dead? The same thing what it has. It gives death. No, that is a wrong tactic, that gives a great trouble to the teacher.