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Les Sleeth said:...Who knows about Meister Eckhart here? What about John of the Cross? Joshu? Brother Lawrence? Nanak? The Baal Shem Tov? Shah Nimatullah Wali? Kabir? Namdev? Dogen? Rabia? Julian of Norwich? Benard? Nansen? Ruysbroeck? Sheikh Farid? Cassian? Who comprehends the enlightenment of the Buddha, or of Jesus? ...
I surely don't know much about them.
If you in fact do know a great deal about their claims and thoughts, have you looked into whether they contradict one another? If in fact contradictions are there, doesn't that imply that at least one of them is in error regarding some particular issue? And if they can be wrong about one thing, isn't it plausible to think they got a whole bunch of things wrong?