210 actas del ii congreso internacional de literatura mística Table 4 (continued) Indulgence in pleasures and gratification result in mythogenesis. The eradication of pleasures and gratifications results in psychogenesis. The lived-experience of material reality results in darkness. The lived-experience of spiritual reality results in light. The lived-experience of material reality is degenerative. The lived-experience of spiritual reality is transformative. The lived-experience of material reality blinds the ego-centric self to spiritual reality. The lived-experience of spiritual reality ‘opens the eyes’ of the self to the essence of material reality. The lived-experience of material reality limits knowledge and promotes deception. The lived-experience of spiritual reality unleashes knowledge and promotes discernment. The lived-experience of material reality creates worldview from the delusion of separateness. The lived-experience of spiritual reality re-creates worldview from the vantage point of oneness. The lived-experience of material reality engenders meaninglessness and purposelessness, and leads to ‘stuckness’. The lived-experience of spiritual reality synthesizes meaning and purpose, and culminates in self-actualization. The lived-experience of material reality engenders stuckness, frustration, hate, unawareness, indifference, injury, stress and distress, intolerance, indulgence, strife, enmity, division, and discord, and the illusion of the rationality and logicality of separation. The lived-experience of spiritual reality engenders ‘flow’, joy, love, awareness, compassion, healing, comfort, tolerance, moderation, peaceful coexistence, solidarity, mutual responsibility, and unity, and a deep awareness of the irrationality and absurdity of separation.
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