Think of all the words we have to describe “taste.” Amazing, appetizing, delightful, enticing, exquisite, divine, luscious, delicious, sweet, savory, yummy, scrumptious, lip-smacking, distinctive, spicy … to name a few. Many know the psalmist used this very word to describe the intense exultation in knowing Spirit: “O taste and see the goodness of God!” Yet an even more profound communication is through the spiritual sense of taste. In the previous articles, I introduced you to the senses of smell and touch as inlets of spiritual knowledge-to experiencing God. Spirit which is the most sweet kiss … pours into our inmost being, the fire, the light, the life, and the love … unconditional and infinite love, which is the ultimate source of creation and the universe.-Father Thomas Keating The most intimate of the mystical experiences, seems to be taste, in which we receive, so to speak, the kiss of God in our inmost being. Part Three of Our Spiritual Senses Series
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