Drawing on his extraordinary experience as an interreligious monk and mystic, Brother Wayne Teasdale explores what he calls interspirituality, a genuine and comprehensive spirituality that draws on the mystical core of the world’s great religious traditions. He describes this age as the birth into a new awareness, a new set of historical circumstances that is evidenced by a number of shifts in our collective understanding. From this spiritual vantage, he shows that what so often forms the basis for conflict can really be a meeting place of understanding. For Teasdale, comparing religious traditions is more than a matter of developing tolerance. In their meeting, he writes, a greater truth can be realized. He explains the power of a universal spirituality and its eight practical elements: solidarity with all life, moral capacity, nonviolence, self-knowledge, selfless service, simplicity of lifestyle, daily practice, and serving as a prophetic witness in the causes of justice, peace, and protecting creation. Through scholarship, stories, and personal practice, Teasdale demonstrates that the final goal of authentic spirituality is realizing one’s true nature as a mystic -- one who lives in the presence of the superconscious, in the reality of the ultimate, divine mystery, who has also integrated the conscious, self-conscious, unconscious, and superconscious levels in the depths of his or her being.