Upon awakening, he turned eagerly to the stenographer and asked her to read what he had uttered. This is why mystical insights should not be accepted uncritically. However, they can offer hypotheses worth serious consideration. As a general rule, mystical insights do not contradict the facts known from sensory perception. Rather, they enable us to see new connections, to make new interpretations of ordinary experiences, and to add new dimensions of emotionality, value, and morality to our lives.
Mystical revelation is authoritative for the person who experiences it.
The mystic's values, behavior, and life course are completely changed by a mystical revelation. He takes the step of loving God with all his soul. Instead of stopping our reading at the descent from the mountain, we read on and hear the story of Jesus's healing of an epileptic boy, in which the third and fourth ways of knowing and loving God are illustrated. As related by Luke, Jesus, Peter, James and John join the rest of the Twelve together with a larger crowd. A man whose son is possessed by a convulsive spirit, that is, an epileptic, begs Jesus to cure him, which he does.