Abstract

This chapter explores the mystical journey that leads to right relationship with and union with God. This relationship enables the purification of the self as a result of detachment from worldly distractions and leads to a proper naming and understanding of God. Central to this journey is participation in the dark night. The dark night is a spiritual experience that prepares the self to know and name, albeit imperfectly, the ineffable mystery John calls “un no sé qué.” Stripped away from all that is not God, human persons can truly encounter God. Or, as John would say by appealing to his todo-nada dialectic (everything/nothing), we strip ourselves of everything that is not God to discover God, and everyone and everything in God. The process of purification and illumination that transforms the will and the mind has as its central purpose to push us beyond familiar notions of where God is found, how God is known, and how God is named.

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