What is interfaith mysticism?
Although the major religions of the world today exhibit great differences, these outer disparities are dwarfed by the vast and universal truths that dwell in common at the mystical core of every religion. By returning to the mystical depths at the heart of each tradition, the divisions between religions are recast in the light of a deeper underlying unity. Each religion can then be viewed as true and complete in its own foundations, while also taking its place among the living family of spiritual traditions that are interwoven into one tapestry of mystical illumination. At their core, religions are one, and this oneness defines a universal or interfaith mysticism. Interfaith mysticism sheds new light on religious division and strife. Rather than struggling to resolve religious conflicts, this approach tends to dissolve those conflicts, through a return to the luminous mystical core that unites all religions at their roots. This perspective neither denies the vast spectrum of substantiv