carl mccolman, spiritual xenophobia, religious fundamentalism, epistemic virtue, contemplative controversy, polydoxy, orthopraxy, orthopathy, polypraxy, polypathy, soteriological trajectories, sophiological trajectories, orthocommunal, orthocommunio, self-actualization, self-transcendence, Hindu not-Self, Buddhist no self, spiritual transformation, unitive intimacy, unitary being, ultimate unicity, apophatic theology, thomas merton, basil pennington, thomas keating, richard rohr, brian mclaren, cynthia bourgeault, john 10:30, monist metaphysics, conventional self, empirical self, metaphysical self, john sobert sylvest, sustained authenticity, mystical core of organized religion