What an amazing book. It is one that has changed my understanding and thus also my life.
It was the chapter on mystic understanding of God that really challenged me. I have never been able to read anything by the mystics without feeling that they must be on some kind of trip. I have also never connected deeply with the portrayal of God as a super-person. Karen made me turn my understanding on its head.
She showed me that mystics do not see God as a person. They experience God. The experience of God is God. God is not what is experienced. Well, it made sense to me and still does! It is the difference between God as a noun and God as a verb. God is not an objective person, but a subjective experience.
Look at it like this. People describe God as loving, eternal, good, etc. This does not mean that he is a person who is loving, eternal, good, etc. He is the experience of loving, eternity goodness etc.
As I say, it makes sense to me!
You will not find God by looking for him. Instead He is there when you see him. Next time you feel any deep and lasting connection either through love or goodness, ask yourself whether that is God. The mystics did, and they found him.
