A student has to be pretty darned determined to read the Science of Mind and not encounter the warm, fuzzy ambiguity of mysticism. Likewise, no reading if the text can possibly avoid the hard-core law-based teaching. These seem like polar opposites and represent a kind of alienating dissonance among us, and in us, because they can be experienced as an either/or reality.
However, this tug-o-war is not new in the faith world, not unknown, not something that just emerged with our beloved faith tradition. Krishna addresses it beautifully, with humor and compassion and with the grace to say that all paths are indeed the best and the swiftest. Whether that be the path of the mind and intellect, or of meditation and reflection or of devotion and service, He says yes, yes, yes, your choice is correct and the best! And each path delivers what that path is capable of even while it leads to the same destination as every other path.
I believe that if there were an idea to put mystics and law abiding metaphysicians in a boxing ring to determine supremacy ... it would be of interest to literally no one in our world. While we struggle with internal dissonance of how to embrace our polarities it may look to those observing us that we are boxing, or that we teeter on the edge of fundamentalism one way or the other. But, I say, we will be plagued by divine discontent until we lean in and accept it all, until we humbly accept that we do and we don't know all at the same time, and that we are all principled mystics in love with Law/Love.
It's difficult to be on this path without a healthy tolerance of paradox and ambiguity.
Mantra: you are my people
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