Whereas reason dominates feeling, mystical knowing does not “conquer” reason—it envelops it, embraces it, transcends it. Thus, mystical or spiritual intuition is integrative: It includes, while transcending, both reason and somatic feeling.

~ Christian de Quincey, 
“Radical Knowing: Understanding Consciousness through Relationship” 

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