Okay, I'm very much with you on the difference between illumination and coersion/manipulation/etc. And I agree with you (and with the divine Iamblichus!) that this distinction is an important one for the discernment of spirits.

I'm struggling, though, with the final piece. Is the claim that it's harder to apply this principle of discernment to experiences which involve the imaginative faculties, than it is with non-imaginative experiences? (And if so, why?)