Stop reusing old ideas
The mind can see only what it is prepared to see. The brain has to use existing patterns and catchments. When we believe that we are analyzing data we are really only trying out our stock of existing ideas to see which one might fit.
Edward deBono, Lateral Thinking (links to Amazon)
Mystical insight and practice is designed to break one free of our standard “patterns and catchments” and thus free one to be able to experience God as God and not as a concept.