This is my response to the suggestion made in the "28 Days..." exploration of the Mystical style to re-read the section in "3 Colors..." on the mystical style and post reflections.
My native style is Rational, leaning toward Sensory. My reactions to the Mystical style are wholly positive. There is something here that I need. In the "3 Colors of Love" methodology I am weakest in area of Grace (which, like the Mystical style, falls in the "blue" area of the Trinitarian Compass). Likewise, in the "3 Colors of Ministry" I came out strong in wisdom and commitment, but weak in, once again, the "blue" area of Power. Exploration of the Mystical style obviously has the potential to lead me somewhere I need to go.
I deeply affirm this style's openness to the way the Spirit works through other traditions and understanding. I would like--and obviously need--deeper "knowledge," on my own part, of how God works through mystery and devotion, and how the Spirit works in the world through ways of which we are not always (rationally!)conscious. The strength of the mystical style is its recognition of the fact that the Spirit, like the wind, 'blows where it will,' and is not bound by our definitions, categories, and expectations.
Frankly, if I am skeptical of anything in that section of the book, it is of the in my view overbearing emphasis on the "personal relationship with Christ," and the insistence that mystical experience justify itself in strict and one-sided Christian terms. In the first place, having a "personal relationship with Jesus Christ," while certainly ONE way of understanding and articulating faith in Christ, is by no means the only way. I do not express my faith in this way--really, I have no idea what "a personal relationship with Jesus" means. I do not see myself as having a little personal Jesus in my own mind and heart; Jesus does not belong to me; he belongs to the world. It seems to me that there is every bit as much danger here of worshiping one's own private feelings as there is anywhere. Oftentimes, what people have a "personal relationship" with is a jesus they have constructed in their own minds, cobbled together out of their own feelings and expectations. There appears to be little sense of the God Who is far greater than our experiences and expectations.
What is vital about the Mystical style is its understanding that God in Christ is larger than our religious and doctrinal boundaries. Especially in this day and age that understanding is something the world desperately needs.