Ladder

Ken Wilber wrote

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It is as if Spirit were both the highest rung on the ladder of our existence AND the wood out of which the entire ladder is made.
Spirit is both totally and completely immanent (as the wood) and totally and completely transcendent (as the highest rung). Spirit is both Ground and Goal.

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It's really the genius of him to point out how desperate we are to find God, alias Spirit, outside ourselves while He is not there. Good luck to us all. He is "the wood". He is here, now.