Sublime

yet real communication with God or Spirit occurs not through words but through the vibration that emanates from you.

One night, as this creature lay in bed with her husband, she heard a melodious sound so sweet and delectable that she thought she had been in paradise. And immediately she jumped out of bed and said, ‘Alas that ever I sinned! It is full merry in heaven.’

This may sound way too mystical for your persuasion, but to put all my cards on the table, I’m with the theologian Karl Rahner, who said, “The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.”[44] You know why I think he’s right? Because the Christian of the past was a mystic. And if we don’t recapture contemplation, we “will n

The basic idea underlying all the great religions is that man is asleep, that he lives amid dreams and delusions, that he cuts himself off from the universal consciousness (the only meaningful definition of God) to crawl into the narrow shell of a personal ego.

But now I was in Paradise, for body and soul were molten in one fire and went up in one flame. The mortal and the immortal vines were made one. Through the joy of the body I possessed the joy of the spirit. And it was so strange to think that all this was through a woman—through a woman I had seen dozens of times and had thought nothing of, except

Ocean Poet

must “know,” says Eckhart, “that the very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within.”17

Catholic tradition has it that in his last days, Jesus showed his disciples how to create the unguent. He passed it on through Saint Peter as a sacred technological key with which to call forth the Holy Ghost. This was, in fact, the “key to the kingdom” that would swing wide the “gates of heaven”. It would, in the experience of each anointed Christ