An invitation to that beyond
What I liked about this book was how the non traditional approach to mysticism, what the author calls agnostic universalism if I remember correctly. The author tries to do two things, first he explores how every tradition has practices and wisdom that we can use in our journey and that we don’t need to agree with them in everything to use them. In every tradition there have always been outcasts that didn’t conform to the norm, yet future generations often come to realize they weren’t that crazy. Second and the real goal (or non-goal), is to invite you to what lies beyond concepts and language, there’s "something" magnificent out there, once we realize our language can’t capture everything the door to understanding opens more and more. My only gripe is the chapter on Christian mysticism, the gospel of Thomas is historically on weak footing, it would have been more useful to use the medieval mystics and the rich traditions of other Christian contemplatives. One’s path to "it" may be different to what others do, as long as we have humility and wonder, that’s fine, we’ll be fine.