Once the sun went behind the mountains, it would rapidly start to get colder and darker and the colors and the warmth of the sun would just be a fuzzy memory.
This was their second night camping in the desert. They had been looking forward to this trip. It had been years since Mind, Body, Soul, and Spirit of the Desert had a reunion.
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Moments of grace—of opening to the numinous, to the Great Mystery—often happen in the wake of crisis. In times of great desolation, something may spontaneously crack within us. The veil that divides our mundane, everyday experience from a deeper perception of reality—what we might call universal reality—becomes thinner and more porous.
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Today it doesn’t matter whether or not I can prove how alive the world is. It doesn’t matter if I can prove an electron is having an experience. What matters is that I can feel stories everywhere. Stories that don’t depend on language. Stories that don’t depend on singularity. Stories that only occur interstitially, between beings, in the fertile, friction-prickled boundaries between differences.
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Most people’s experience is filtered exclusively through the thinking mind, and this drastically limits the experience itself. This is not to state that thoughts and memories are not necessary for the human experience, but we have long ago surrendered the purity and joy of raw experience to the limits and judgements of the thinking mind.
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The Braided Way is a framework to see every faith tradition as a strand, braided into a larger whole of spiritual awareness. In the Braided Way, combining spiritual practice from various faiths allow us to explore sacred experience and wonder in forms that resonate with our personal spiritual needs and sacred intuitions. In today’s culture, many people shun religious dogma, but yearn for spiritual connection. The Braided Way allows the ceremonies and practices of multiple faiths to be available without the confinements of cultural dogma.