I chuckled at the snark in your 1st post, but jacobolus is right about the words are there to illustrate that these are far beyond ordinary capabilities (both i

I chuckled at the snark in your 1st post, but jacobolus is right about the words are there to illustrate that these are far beyond ordinary capabilities (both in results & time to acquire). They are not merely unqualified; e.g., the "heightened" is specifically described in the next paragraph as e.g., developing 10x perceptual resolution/sensitivity. That said, there may be a bit of hand-waving vagueness, as I'm trying for a short post, not a thesis (my experiences in international competition led me to study neuroscience in college). More broadly, if you've had enough of the physical experience to understand the points, you need little explanation, and if you don't, there's almost no explanation you'll understand. Spend a decade or two learning & refining a true physical skill, craft, sport, musical instrument, martial art, or something and come back and tell us that the words have no meaning. Once you've been there, you'll tell us instead that the words were inadequate expressions of the phenomena. ("There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy")