Oh, please, that is so out of context as to not even be related to the issue. Paul is saying that this happened to him, not that his “meditation” gave him special insight. GO READ THE TEXT...stop spouting the party line and READ THE TEXT, darn it. That is exactly what my post argues...you are so committed to your tradition that you cannot bring yourselves to actually read the text.
**I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows. And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows— was caught up to paradise. He heard inexpressible things, things that man is not permitted to tell. (2 Cor 12:2-4)**
Could St. Paul be talking about himself?