All of the ideas we have about 'Enlightenment', 'Self Realization' or whatever spiritual names have been given to our true nature, make it very difficult when the real does shine through. We then mistake the real for too ordinary or not mystical enough, and then we end up creating a more exciting version of reality, which is obviously not true.
However, given the ancient witness to contemplative knowing and the great abundance of evidence for psi phenomena, many sources of which I cite in subsequent chapters, it is a great mistake to exclude such things from our accounts of human nature. That is why many, if not most, great thinkers since antiquity have given paranormal events and mystical truth claims a central place in their philosophies.