Transforming union is a restructuring of consciousness, not an experience or set of experiences. In the course of this restructuring, as we shall see in chapter sixteen, the presence of God becomes a kind of fourth dimension to the three-dimensional world in which we have been living. In the light of transforming union, therefore, the most important element in centering prayer is the practice itself, not its psychological content. If we fully grasped this truth, it would make the spiritual journey