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The aim of meditation is to bring him within his innermost self. If he permits any psychical experience to detain him on the way, he enters within that experience and not within himself. It is a cunning device of the ego to make use of such experiences to trick him into thinking of them as being more important than they really are, more spiritual than they really are. If he does not see through these pretensions, he may waste years uselessly in psychism--sometimes even a whole lifetime.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 1 : Preparatory > # 480