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The therapeutic side of meditation practices can be competently studied only by one who both practises them from the inside as well as observes them from the outside. The scientist and the medical physician, who can do the latter only, are not even half-competent: they miss the essence of the subject in missing the power at work. Their intellects may logically theorize or imaginatively guess at it but that does not bring them into touch with the reality of it. The very scepticism with which they usually confront the record of these unorthodox healings and often reject their genuineness, unfits them for such investigation. The proper openness of mind, neither credulous nor cynical, is hard for them to establish.

-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 5 : The Healing Power of The Overself > # 2