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The practice of meditation is accompanied by certain risks if it is also accompanied by ignorance and indiscipline. The first risk has been dealt with in The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga and The Wisdom of the Overself; it is mystical hallucination, self-deception, or pseudo-intuition. The second risk is mediumship. Whereas spiritualists believe it confers benefits, philosophers know it causes injury. Whereas the former regard it as a process for getting new faculties, powers, and gifts, the latter regard it as a process for losing reason, will, and character.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 1 : Preparatory > # 461