Simmons: I think he's also struggling with himself here because he is saying like I have the same problem of skepticism with all of these separate experiences as well. He says open any one of these and you will find abundant cases in which mystical ideas are cited as characteristic symptoms of enfeebled or deluded state of minds. "I don't see any overwhelming body of evidence that would lead me to to trust these as a general category of insight sure"

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