Do you guys actually believe this stuff?

[Adonai One]

...I have seen many, many otherwise perfectly functional people adopt new age beliefs and become more and more dissociated and eventually get committed to wards.

This mainly occurs when one commits themselves completely to a belief to where their very subjective reality and sanity depends on the belief being true. This is a huge problem with "new age beliefs" because, frankly, most of them heavily contradict a standard reality; But it can occur with any extreme form of conviction towards a belief and absolute doubt in anything else but the given belief.

To give a balance here, if an atheist were to commit himself to being an atheist absolutely to where there can only be a universe without a God, and were to enter a dimension of thought where there were a God, he would become very insane to the point of mental collapse.