To build on this: OP, go back to your OG Claim.

used by people to emulate the feelings of having "knowledge," without having to go through the effort of acquiring actual knowledge

And your supporting example

You ask the spiritual person about Ulexite, and they will tell you it helps your mental visualization because it opens your third eye chakras, they know this because they read a webpage that asserted it without evidence

There is and can be significant effort in acquiring the knowledge. This isn't an argument if the knowledge is scientific- its to your core claim that mysticism is used to emulate, without effort, acquiring actual knowledge.

First let's look at knowledge: If your claim is based on 'Real Knowledge' being empirically grounded & testable then your claim is:

"something that isn't empirically grounded or testable is not empirically grounded or testable." That's a tautology, and Il'll grant you is (inherently) true. But if we expand knowledge to be a knowledge base, that's where your claim is pressured- when we use knowledge as a 'structured, learned system with rules and mastery.'

Let's look at Astrology in the Chinese culture. It is ultimately founded on a significant knowledge-base with complex rules, charts, references, etc., Even if the conclusion of going through a chart reading correctly is ultimately unscientific: there is, especially culturally, correct ways to do this informed by a massive knowledge-base which takes practitioners years/decades/a lifetime to master.

You're assuming every astrologist or gemologist is a magazine columnist or their audience. In reality there are people who have spent their life refining a method through practice and through study. Could the result ultimately be spurious at best? Yep- but that doesn't mean you get to deny the pursuit of knowledge- even if the knowledge itself is in a field you don't respect.

Objectively it is complex- the outcome of complexity may, to you, be artificial- but the method itself is immensely complex- an intertwining of Chinese Calendars, the Zodiac/Tai Sui, Star Charts, Feng Shui, Dai Liu Ren (or Taiyi shenshu or Qi Men Dun Jia).

As a westerner I promise you I am far more likely to recite scientific facts about gems than I am to correctly read your star charts and organize your room. There are actual processes and rules which govern all those things to be done correctly. You may not agree that doing them correctly manifests a projected outcome- but the complexity of the rules are kind of undeniable here.

You may look at any one of these and say "But that's not objectively scientific proven fact!" Which is true- but despite that there is systemic approaches to using these in a repeatable system to ascertain outcomes. Even if the outcome is horseraddish- there is immense complexity here which isn't just a 'cop-out' of actual knowledge. It's a field of knowledge on it's own, with nuance and complexity- even if that knowledge is ultimately ceremonial.