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Some meditation exercises are not without danger, but this is because most exercises share such danger. Hence, they are usually prescribed along with the religious devotions, intellectual training, and moral disciplines intended to eliminate their danger. Where these safeguards have been absent, unfortunate results may be perceived both in the Orient and the Occident, both in the past annals of mysticism and the present ones. The philosophic discipline and the purificatory preparation are also intended to guard against the danger of inflation of the ego. The cultivation of humility, the moral re-education, the rigorous self-examination, and the honest self-criticism form part of these preparations.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 1 : Preparatory > # 470