William McNamara On Mystical Experience

In “The Human Adventure”, William McNamara reveals that mystical experience is more like a man learning to walk than a a man learning to fly.  An isolated peak experience is more like the periodic refreshment of a man’s vocation than like the processive daily task of man’s vocation.  Peak experiences are those occasional mountaintop views that encourage us to press on toward the end, to the mystery at the end of the journey, glimpsed and foreshadowed along the way.  The daily pressure of the Spirit, the persevering forward movement, the whole experience of life along the way, on the heights or in the hollows, this, and not the sporadic peak experience, is the essence of the mystical life.”