The author tells us that there are excellent, beautiful and difficult – times of growth and drastic changes for all of us. When we are released from fear, this life is a beautiful and tremendous adventure! It stops being an adventure when we wish it would be this or that way and so we being to take it as is. We begin to go through the gentle waters and through the rapids of life with the awareness that it is all experience, God experiencing itself. What we call “me” is but the eye of awareness beholding the experience.

Jesus tells us in John 14:12, “Truly I say to you, he who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I go to the Father.” The author read this passage when he was fourteen years old, and it woke him up. He says that these words of Jesus are a description of the potential of the human soul. He calls it the process of _expression (creative continuity) in our own lives.

He recounts his own journey and gives the reader the steps along the way toward a transformation of consciousness. The author feels that the major enfoldments in consciousness are not only brought about by studying religious or mystical literature, but are usually brought about by the interdisciplinary action of our mind: movement and rest. We can move with mathematics or biology, for instance, and rest in the principles of the spirit. Out of this action conscious communion with the environment emanates: a new mysticism that might save planet earth.

One of the mistakes most of us have made in our journey is the conscious, but mainly unconscious, concept of a separation between our daily lives and our spiritual on going. We want to be “spiritual” and reject our daily life, especially our problems. But we enter the spiritual kingdom through the discovery of the divinity in our daily lives. We enter in by discovering what it is that we do every day. The Mysticism of Daily Life is something we have not paid attention to. We cannot find the spiritual life in a space that is not really our individual one. The mystical life must be found right where we are and as we are. The transformation begins from here. We have to discover how to transform our base metals – our so-called bad experiences – into gold. This alchemy of awareness is the mysticism of now (our everyday life) and it is a must if we want to know and express the Self that we are.

The author feels our job today is to be the facilitators, the midwives, of this new state of awareness, because we have in a small or in the greater measure, walked the way or opened the door. Our job is to add, to do the greater things Jesus talked about. The creative continuity that heals, enlightens, facilitates – the author says that Service is the highest degree in the mystical path.