1. Our Transformative Journeys, secular & sacred
We consider these journeys, along with their associated Lonerganian conversions, secular,
which is to say that the Spirit's influence is experienced implicitly
journey to individuation - experiences of our unified self lead to formal accounts of
intrasubjective integrity
journey to belonging - experiences of our unitive strivings lead to stories of intersubjective
intimacy
journey to enlightenment - experiences of the radically relational vis a vis unitary being lead to
formal accounts of intraobjective identity (immanent & impersonal interconnectedness,
reality's primitives & root metaphors) as articulated in our natural philosophies
journey to transcendence - experiences of our primal ground vis a vis ultimate unicity lead to
formal accounts of interobjective indeterminacy (transcendent & impersonal
interconnectedness, axiomatic & law-like) as articulated in our natural theologies
Via a contemplative integration, the journey to authenticity continues as we explicitly recognize
the Spirit and respond, cooperating with grace in awareness, such that ...after experiences
of being in love, religious conversions then transmute these, more or less, otherwise secular
journeys into various polydoxic, sacred expressions of our primary encounters of the divine
attributes (truth, beauty, goodness & unity) as our experience of our
1) unified self then further realizes our true self, a creature of a divine Creator ... an insight of
Judaism and Islam, also revealed in our Christian paterology
2) unitive strivings then further realize our personal intimacy with a God of love ... an insight of
Christianity, revealed in our christology
3) unitary being then further realizes the indwelling divine energies that animate and relate
everything and everyone, everywhere ... an insight of Buddhism, also revealed in our Christian
pneumatology
4) ultimate unicity then further realizes our radical ground ... an insight of Hinduism, also
revealed in our Trinitarian mystery (ad intra)