Well to share with my own experience..actually I personally was maybe one of that kind of person you mentioned..a new age spritual guy.. or maybe in other terms.. just lazy.

I could remember that I actually stumbled across Psitek around a year ago, and I actually found this site through a forum which taught you how to meet and attract ladies. I was very depressed at that point of time because a lot of my friends around me had girlfriends while I had none.. not even one before, and I wanted to get this area of my life handled with..but I was still unwilling to actually face the fear and take action to apply the methods.

I signed up for the MasterKey System, breezed through the first few lessons WITHOUT even attempting the exercises at all..and of course I quit reading after the 7th or 8th lesson as I could not understand a single thing he was talking about from there on. I read Think & Grow Rich, and again I only read it halfway, gave up as I could not understand what Napoleon Hill was talking about from the 2nd half onwards and I did not even try the methods he said in the first few chapters.

Weirdly enough, due to some strange events that occured in my life, I met my long lost friend who actually also read these kinds of books, and he inspired me to start reading these self development books once again. The first one I started again was Think & Grow Rich, and this time I employed the methods taught in the first few chapters, and oddly enough the 2nd part of the book became much more clearer to me.

After a year or so of signing up for newsletters that teach you how to meet and atrract girls and reading..I still don't have a single girlfriend yet. This is when I suddenly realized there was something wrong with myself..and realizing the fact that plain reading is never enough. Reading self development books one after another just gets you pumped up in the hype(just like all the meeting ladies newsletters), and you actually get all the motivation you need WHILE you are still reading those books/newsletters, inspired by success stories and everything..but when you stop..WHAM it all comes back to reality and you realize that you are actually still afraid to do something, and that you are still back to square one.

This is the one major problem I guess many people face while trying to enter the world of metaphysics or probably anything else in the world..which makes a lot of people give up even before they actually start. And it doesn't really help when you show a book like "think &grow rich" to your friends, and their initial responses most of the time would be "Have you gone crazy thinking about money", "you must be out of mind to read such a book", "there is no such thing as growing rich just by thinking","i think this book is a scam","dont ask me to read this book.. i have no interest in it just by looking at the title"

so I guess, the easiest way to actually start and continue on this journey is find at least a single friend who read similar books and practise similar things like you..just like finding a wingman. And oddly enough again,when I started reading think &grow rich again and signing up for the master key system, Simon also launched this new site inwardquest maybe less than 1or 2 months..and I felt a lot more relieved and motivated to start all over again because I know there would be people out there to help me on this journey even if none of my friends believe in such things.

I believe that it could be, I turned with-in many years ago, while others went out and had plenty of friends I turned with-in. In this respect I grew very much spiritually however worldly I stunted my self growth. This is because I turned away from the world and that turning away lead me to a heavenly place of awareness but at the same time stuff most take for granted as common knowledge for me was confusing. So I could easily say I escaped for very many years into another consciousness away from the world by myself which was a connection with my source center. This connection resulted eventually in my Yahoo group God Consciousness Experiment. I did have to come back to this world, we have to live here, we have bills and all kinds of problems to be handled on a daily bases. I do miss it many times although I still do tap into it. I just am not constantly living in it anymore.

Yes.

There is a healthy balance that can sometimes be lost!

Yes, and that's OK.

True spirituality is a thing of joy and of the earth, and has nothing to do with fake adult dignity. It has nothing to do with long words and sorrowful faces. It has to do with the dance of consciousness that is within you, and with the sense of spiritual adventure that is within your hearts.

It is not dependent upon your youth, it is not dependent upon your body. It rings and sings through the universe, and through your entire personality. It is a sense of joy that makes all creativity probable.

So do not think you are being spiritual when you are being long-faced, and do not think you are being spiritual when you berate yourself for your sins. The seasons within your system come and go. The sun falls upon your face wheteher you think you are a sinner or a saint. The vitality of the universe is creativity and joy and love, and that is spirituality.

Sorce: Seth Speaks

I can appreciate your thoughts on this subject matter, and you are correct in your assumption in the first and second half of your question, that is also my impression.

But if I am passionate about something, I will follow through with it to the end, or if I get bored half way through it, then I know that it is not for me, and of course I usually start a new interest!