Interesting that he focuses so much on other people in his critique. He was not able to recognize the wealth in his "negative" experience of meditation. I used to belong to a Unitarian church, near a university, and there were many Ph.D.'s there who stressed the scientific, political and social aspects of life, always the externals; or conversely were those into transcendental states of mind that they believed they were able to access because of their great intelligence. It was simply ego stuff. It was about the foolishness of believing you are superior to others because you have a "rational" state of mind.
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