If there should be a new assurance of meaning, even of security, it must come about as an achievement, as the arising of a new kind of certainty wrested from acute insecurity and alienation. Such a mature spiritual state requires a certain kind of inward knowledge rooted in experience. Inward knowledge rooted in experience is based on the laws of unconscious apperception, which do not change. It is more important to recognize the subjective root, in the mind, of our ideas about the Divine than to accept metaphysical and theological statements. In every soul there is hunger for that kind of direct vision that bestows wholeness and true meaning.
Tradition is always rooted in experience.
Behind every structure woven of theology, philosophy, and revealed ethics there lies a fundamental bedrock of transcendental experience. The a priori realm of transcendence can relate itself to the temporal field of phenomenal appearances only by analogy. The instrument whereby this kind of analogy is expressed is the metaphor . In the age of desacralization, trivializing liturgical reforms, and liberation theologies, the way points toward a restoration theology and psychology designed to appropriate the discarded wisdom of the psychological spirituality. Despite the ever-recurring naive notions of many to right all the wrongs of existence by way of extroverted collective solutions alone, the crucible wherein compassion weds wisdom is erected in individuals one by one.