[FairfieldLife] 8 pts.of agreement from the lived experience of contemporary mystics..

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The 1984 Smowmass Conference Eight Points of Agreement,
 from the lived experience of contemporary mystics..
  
 
 The world religions bear witness to the experience of Ultimate Reality, to 
which they give various names.
 
 Ultimate Reality cannot be limited by any name or concept.
 
 Ultimate Reality is the ground of infinite potentiality and actualization.
 
 Faith is opening, accepting, and responding to Ultimate Reality. Faith in this 
sense precedes every belief system.
 
 The potential for human wholeness—or, in other frames of reference, 
enlightenment, salvation, transcendence, transformation, blessedness—is present 
in every human being.
 
 Ultimate Reality may be experienced not only through religious practices but 
also through nature, art, human relationships, and service to others.
 
 As long as the human condition is experienced as separate from Ultimate 
Reality, it is subject to ignorance and illusion, weakness and suffering.
 
 Disciplined practice is essential to the spiritual life; yet spiritual 
attainment is not the result of one’s own efforts, but the result of the 
experience of oneness with Ultimate Reality. [2]