150 actas del ii congreso internacional de literatura mística organ of spiritual cognition and the perception of spiritual reality is seen as the basis for this transformation. Accordingly, knowledge is no longer seen as limited to verification through the senses, reason, assumption, opinion, theory, and speculation. It is perceived through existential experience, and is therefore seen as energy, or action. The traditions examined suggest that knowledge is not amassed or acquired, but rather an interactive development between the individual, experience, and environment, (i.e., the cosmos). Consequently, knowledge cannot be separated from context and emerges from the vision of Light as the individual develops ontological goal-directed intentional activities across cultural contexts. The adoption of goaldirected intentional activities relates to the direction of attention to the detection of affordances in the system that lead to accomplishment of the goals. Knowledge is said to be expressed in the ability to act as an increasingly competent participant in an integrated whole; and moreover, as participation increases, knowledge evolves. Through participation and enculturation into the whole, it is suggested that knowledge is expressed through experience and action; knowing is therefore rooted in action and cannot be decontextualized. Other worldviews are therefore considered to be impoverished methods that are unlikely to lead to true knowledge. Knowledge encourages the expression of effectivities and the development of attention and goal-intention through rich contexts that are believed to reflect direct spiritual experience. This form of reflective representation of knowledge is considered to be a higher form of knowing, and is a creative interaction with symbols in both their interpretation and expression. The representation is re-experiencing that involves the dialectic of ongoing perceiving and action, which also involves the activation of neural structures and schemata, which develop as the energized neural connections become biased through repeated activations to reactivate in new lived-experience situations. In this mystical worldview, mental health is seen to be enhanced through the systematic and longitudinal explication of the interior meaning-structures of consciousness, or rediscovery of the supersensory organ of spiritual cognition, which, as a persistent and constant component of self-consciousness, can be easily differentiated from changing components in guided and attentive introspection.
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