Out of this separation has come so much misunderstanding and thousands of wars sparked by mutual suspicion, isolation, competition and hostility. The Interspiritual Age promises to melt away the old barriers, and with them, the old antagonisms. This is one reason why it should be nurtured and encouraged. Interspirituality opens the way to friendship among members of differing faiths. Friendship creates bonds of community 4 between and among the religions through their members, and community' represents a shift from the old competitive, antagonistic model to a new opportunity, a new paradigm of relationship that seeks to meet on common ground.
Community makes interspirituality possible, and the cross over 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 in our systems. The interspiritual development is a process of transcending boundaries, carrying us, and humanity also, to a new vision of life, one in which we live on the bridges that unite us, no longer in isolation. The bridge is our future, and that is an interspiritual vision. 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. All traditions emphasize the deep interiority of the contemplative vision.