How to talk to a friend

[anagogy]

How can I talk with a friend who says this about the Law of One and Spirituality?

I hate to say it, but you have fallen into a trap where reality and imagination are confused. You have come to believe in utter nonsense and, somehow, think that everyone else is wrong. I think that you are too easily swayed into believing almost anything. Take, for example, that one guy who you were absolutely convinced by mere trickery that he could actually set fire to paper using nothing but the "powers" of some ancient belief. I'm sorry, but merely believing in something doesn't give anyone special powers, period. You can read a million so-called testimonials by a million different people, but that doesn't mean that everyone is telling you the truth. People lie about all sorts of things for various reasons, such as money (the sales of books and TV spots, etc.), notoriety and just to see how many suckers they can reel in. Others lie because they think that it's the only way that they can make friends.

The best advice that I can give a friend (and yes, I do consider you to be my best friend  is to question EVERYTHING and remain skeptical. Don't immediately trust anyone, for that's a sure way of being taken advantage of. The same goes for salesmen, who are only in it for their own personal gain.  

Personally, I wouldn't even try to convince them.  Usually such "convincing" just results in both parties simply becoming more deeply entrenched in their belief systems.

Every individual has a circumscribed boundary to their belief system.  Once the limits of that have been found, the only real way to relate to them is within the parameters they have come to accept.  The best you can do is occasionally try to stretch it just a little.  It takes time and patience.  But at the end of the day, you can't force someone to widen their view, even if it is causing them pain.

All you can really do is accept them for where they are, and share your relationship to the degree their belief system allows.  You literally repel information that does not resonate with your belief system to the same degree as the purity and conviction of the belief.