This is one reason why it should be nurtured and encouraged. Community makes interspirituality possible, and the crossover substantial. Transcendental experience awakens us to the possibility of radical spiritual change by allowing us to see beyond the boundaries that have kept us all separate from one another and isolated within our systems. The common ground that interspirituality reveals is both in the reality of mystical experience itself and in the practical elements of the spiritual life in each tradition. In the mystical, transcendental sphere the basis of entering this realm of depth, height and breadth is consciousness itself.
All traditions emphasize the deep interiority of the contemplative vision.
This vision, or rather direction, is a sine qua non for breakthroughs and for real progress on our own journey. All mystical experience requires consciousness as medium and as perceived reality of the Ultimate. The Divine modifies our consciousness so that we can be aware of it. Without consciousness there would be no mysticism. On the mystical level there is an option between an intimate, personal, loving God, with whom we can enter into a profound relationship of love and knowledge in the embrace of divine union initiated by God, or the transpersonal, impersonal realization of the ultimate condition of mind or consciousness, of the Buddhist tradition.