Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience of which the purpose is too deep going too deep in the blood and soul for mental explanation or description.
The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'
But if somebody dies if something happens to you there is a normal process of depression it is part of being human and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
You cannot in human experience rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience heightened creativity or exceptional performance by athletes and artists we harbor a greater life than we know.
But human experience is usually paradoxical that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
In order to experience everyday spirituality we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
If merely 'feeling good' could decide drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.