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A Transcendent, Immanent Spirituality “Mysticism is the integral, holistic experience of reality, life itself.” – Raimon Panikkar Our mystical hope is not in an escape from this realm, but rather through the full and total embrace of the whole of reality. This necessarily includes the imaginal and spiritual realms which go beyond and permeate this everyday world we live in. But they are not separate and distant. They are interwoven in the fabric of consciousness we can learn to inhabit more and more. This is an integral mysticism. Through spiritual practice or mystical grace, we can ascend to a transcendent, cosmic state of mystical experience. But this is not our permanent destination or spiritual ultimate found in a separate, distinct reality of experience. Rather, our mystical transcendence can serve as a dynamic expansion into more than what we already know, more than what we have seen, more than who we have been. And sometimes this movement feels rather like an inner deepening than an outer extending. We integrate the more into our divine being in the here and now—which is now experienced in ways bigger and deeper, and more intensely present. A transcendence into greater immanence. Or, to put it another way, joining heaven and earth. . . .... read more from the full article: "A Spirituality of Divine Participation Here and Now" in the comments. (fb)