154 actas del ii congreso internacional de literatura mística 4.5 tolerance The adoption of an ontological dynamic of goal-intention, based upon integration, reportedly enables the person, (who has attained self-actualization through the path of spiritual ascendancy and mystical experience in Buddhism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Hinduism, or Islam), to implement precise goal-intentions when presented with any lived-reality, thereby positively interacting with the whole. In spite of the fact that there are many levels of intentions, the mystic is focused and has one primary and integrative goal-intention, and moves towards that primary goal, in terms of perception, attention, and action. The trajectory process includes the tuning of the attention. Each goalintention confronted by the mystic is then meaningfully delimited, and the dynamics of that specific goal-intention inform the mystic as to the specific goal-intention’s compatibility with the primary goalintention. If incompatibility exists, the mystic will then take corrective action, and continue in the direction of his/her primary and integrative goal-intention. The process is congruous with the theory of situated cognition, and the spiritual and material worlds provide virtual affordances that are grounded in experience. The mystic becomes an avatar, or the embodiment and personification of the principle of integration and non-duality. Accordingly, Buddhism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam affirm that, freed from worldviews that reflect and foment psychopathology, psychosis, and moreover, object-relational pathology, the mystic acquires self-transcendence, or a sense of self-identity that is deeper, higher, broader, and more unified with the whole. The supersensory organ of spiritual cognition, which rests in the ‘heart’, is restored and actualized upon entering the ontological experience of unity. This unity, which is based upon non-duality, as opposed to monism, is based upon the belief and recognition that the animate and inanimate constituents of the universe are separate and, at the same time, connected, but not confused. Each of the constituents is comprised of essences or inner principles, which are in fact the inner principles or thoughts of God. These are believed to be connected to the intellect, wisdom, and providence of God and constitute that which is referred to in the traditions examined as the unitary cosmic principle. The unitary cosmic principle is believed to contain multiple inner
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