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Yvain comments on Crowley on Religious Experience - Less Wrong
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Even things that are untrue may provide information about the mental experiences of the person who believes them.
Religion and mysticism are far too common to simply dismiss as nonsense; it behooves those of us who reject them fundamentally to understand better their hold on the minds of others.
I agree with you, but we still can't go posting every bit of falsehood or New Age flimflam on Less Wrong just because there's probably something interesting behind it. A general article on the mental phenomena that underlie astrology would be interesting, but an astrologer's article on what it means for the moon to be in Aquarius, presented without comment, would not be.