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The fact that supra-intellectual comprehension has not been achieved is no
proof that it is impossible”.
My ego hesitated a little about the reply to that, and sensible knowledge
heightened the difficulty by referring to dreams. “Do you not see”, it said,
“how, when you are asleep, you believe things and imagine circumstances,
holding them to be stable and enduring and, so long as you are in that
dream-state, have no doubts about them? And is it not the case that when
you wake up you know that all you have imagined and believed is
unfounded and ineffectual? Why then are you confident that all your waking
beliefs, whether from sense or intellect, are genuine? They are true in your
present state; but it is possible that you will come to a state where your
waking consciousness has the same relationship to dreaming. Your waking
consciousness would be like dreaming! When you have entered this state,
you will be sure that your intellect is just empty imagination. It may be that
this state is what the Sufis claim to be their special “state” of ecstasy which
occurs when they have withdrawn into themselves and are absent from
proof that it is impossible”.
My ego hesitated a little about the reply to that, and sensible knowledge
heightened the difficulty by referring to dreams. “Do you not see”, it said,
“how, when you are asleep, you believe things and imagine circumstances,
holding them to be stable and enduring and, so long as you are in that
dream-state, have no doubts about them? And is it not the case that when
you wake up you know that all you have imagined and believed is
unfounded and ineffectual? Why then are you confident that all your waking
beliefs, whether from sense or intellect, are genuine? They are true in your
present state; but it is possible that you will come to a state where your
waking consciousness has the same relationship to dreaming. Your waking
consciousness would be like dreaming! When you have entered this state,
you will be sure that your intellect is just empty imagination. It may be that
this state is what the Sufis claim to be their special “state” of ecstasy which
occurs when they have withdrawn into themselves and are absent from