ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the nature and impact of the sacred as it arises in secular conditions. Due to the internalisation of the sacred in secular societies, the sacred has become psychological and intertwined with psychological problems and disorders. The postsecular sacred is distinguished by its emphasis on wholeness and the reunification of body and spirit. It is a sacredness most unlike the disembodied spirituality of former times, which is why religious traditions find it hard to appreciate. Postsecular spirituality owes its experiential dimension to the impact of science; if something cannot be tested against experience, it is rejected. This has led to a mystical bias in the postsecular. The mystical speaks directly to the postsecular condition because it is non-clerical, immediate and transformative. The mystical is not dogmatic or assertive but receptive and open to the sacredness of the ordinary.
