Reply To: The Inner Reaches of Outer Space is Within Reach,” with Dennis Slattery, Ph.D”
Hi Lee: I think one quality connected with having a direct experience of the numinous is attitude. If your attitude is one of openness, of seeing and experiencing something or someone not from a fixed point of view but one of openness and curiosity, then you allow the phenomena of the world to speak on their own terms and to imaginally incite/insight analogies in you that may lead you further on your own path.
The key word in your last missive was “appreciate.” The other words are “in a similar manner.” These two groups of words reveal how, like the Blessed Virgin reading when she is visited by the angel Gabriel, is a readiness to give one’s self over to the mystery of being, in whatever form it takes and wherever it leads you in acts of reflection.
Send your article when time permits and much appreciate your responses above.