Meditation 1

Underhill, Evelyn. _Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of
Man's Spiritual Consciousness._ E.P. Dutton, New York. 1961.

"(5) Certain processes, of which contemplation has been taken as a type,
can so alter the state of consciousness as to permit the emergence of this
deeper self; which, according as it enters more or less into the conscious
life, makes man more or less a mystic. The mystic life, therefore, involves
the emergence from deep levels of man's transcendental self; its capture of
the field of consciousness; and the 'conversion' or rearrangement of his
feeling, thought, and will--his character--about this new centre of life."
pp.67-68