The Mystic Discerns A Spiritual Whole Poem by Genova Maaa my mother

The mystic discerns a spiritual whole
in the universe which is not subject
to scientific or rational verification.

The apprehension of Reality comes
not from scientific reductionism
or from rational analogies
but through spiritual intuition.

So says Raymond panikkar:
„When the contemplative concentrates,
he does not perform a psychological act,
but condenses ontologically, actually
con-centers the most disparate
and widespread circles of Reality,
in such a way that in himself,
the universe is concentrated
and is reflected in a unity which,
under the circumstances of the
usual dispersion of being
in nature, cannot take place". (Raymond Panikker,
„The Theandric vocation", Monastic Studies,8: 71-72.,
Spring 1972) .