THE MULTISTATE PARADIGM AND THE SPIRITUAL PATH OF JOHN-OF-THE-CROSS

A contemporary linguistic and conceptual framework for multistate education provides a useful structure for the analysis and comparative description of various psychospiritual paths. Based on a multistate paradigm, the framework has three central elements: mindbody state, mindbody psychotechnologies, and resident abilities. This structure offers a simple, objective perspective for an analysis in detail, of a Roman Catholic sub-tradition, the historically significant spiritual path and writings of the sixteenth-century Spanish Carmelite, John of the Cross.