“These works comprise a span of about seventy years during which I have deepened in the sense of a fairer and fuller human life. I have not lived to write, but I have written to live in a more conscious way and help my brothers with thoughts arising from my mind and from a higher Source that may well be called Spirit. ”

This volume of the complete Works includes the prestigious Gifford Lectures. The resulting text was reviewed and reworked until its publication shortly before Panikkar's death. It is, therefore, a work that reflects the author's vital and philosophical trajectory. It intertwines their intuitions about religion, philosophy, science and revelation in the light of the mystery of Life and Being.

In the author's words, it is "a contemplative work": "Our task is to assimilate the wisdom of past traditions and let them grow. Life is neither repetition nor continuation. It is growth, which implies rupture and continuity at the same time. Life is creation, a continuous creativity. »