*EXPAND - see GROW, EVOLVE, TRANSCEND, ABSOLUTE, INFINITE, ETERNAL, SYNTHESIS, REVELATION, CONSCIOUSNESS
The illuminated experience balances and completes the experience of the Presence of God as an expansion of consciousness, rather than concentration. It is the discovery of the One ablaze in the Many, not the forsaking of the Many in order to find the One. (p305) (Mysticism)
Humans possess two ways in which they can expand their selfhood:
one outward, the other inward. We are at the center of a web of
consciousness like a tree's trunk that become aware of its roots as well
as its branches. Gnostic thinking that the greater world (macrocosm)
of transcendence is duplicated within the smaller world (microcosm) of
immanence and similarly with the human psyche itself. (Jung, p162,164)