The Snail of the Heart: A Proposal of Another

Abstract

This text is the result of an existential search of 50 years of life... Long and abrupt journey in the divine and human planes. It is, in effect, an innovative proposal inspired by the 7 Mansions of the Interior Castle of Santa Teresa de Jesús, but referring to a creature as modest as it is enigmatic: The Snail, glimpsing in it seven rooms or meanders that intertwine the seven human faculties most relevant: sensitivity, feeling, imagination, will, intelligence, memory and spirit, which in a demanding itinerary lead to the deepest center of the human being: The Kingdom of God. For this experience of deep depth and high board, the most support significant is the lyrical poetry in the style of Saint John of the Cross, first on a philosophical level (liberation) and then on a theological level (pleroma, which translates plenitude). The rest is contemplative silence of each person and the action of the Holy Spirit, at the pace of each one, in the light of this precious and precise epigraph of Proverbs.