This deeply human book presents the spirituality of "the word made flesh" a spirituality that affirms and respects the sacredness of the body and of all matter. Earthy Mysticism shows how the contemplative life of passionate presence flows naturally into the active life of presence to and in the world. Father McNamara writes: "Western mysticism is necessarily an earthy mysticism. The source of Christian mysticism is in the earth, in the world, in the flesh. To say this is not to speak of confinement but of contentment. This is marvelously true in two senses. First of all, God has revealed that he is contented to dwell in us and that he finds his delight in us when we embody him. And when we enflesh him consciously and creatively, there is no end to his delight. It is as unconfined as an active volcano. In a second sense, there is divine contentment in the human venture. If we are ever going to enjoy the 'passover, then our sole content, as wayfarers and pilgrims of the Absolute, must be divine, that is to say, we must be God-centered human beings, earthy enfleshments of the Numinous."