In the heart of all mystical experiences lies a space that transcends ordinary perception. This space, which we suggest to call the ‘ultrasubjective hyperspace’, is not imaginary in the sense of fantasy, nor purely objective in the scientific sense. It is a subtle realm of experience where consciousness, as a radiant and receptive presence, perceives visions, sounds, and sensations that arise not from external stimuli but from the deeper layers of reality itself.

Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi, the Persian philosopher and mystic, spoke of this in terms of imaginative perception, a faculty by which the soul beholds spiritual realities in luminous, symbolic forms. Unlike fantasy or illusion, this perception is precise and meaningful. It is a mode of knowing, and it offers access to the intermediate world between spirit and matter.

Henri Corbin, the French philosopher and scholar of Islamic mysticism, developed Suhrawardi’s vision further, introducing the concept of the mundus imaginalis or the imaginal world. This world is not “imaginary” in the sense of unreal; it is a real world of forms, visions, and messages that can be accessed through inner cultivation. It is a domain where prophets received divine images, where mystics walked with guides and angels, and where the soul finds its true mirror.

Our ultrasubjective inner world

In this space, ‘the soul’ (or is it God?) emits and receives. The visual cortex generates phosphene light; the auditory cortex hums with subtle frequency; the skin and fascia respond with vibrations that transcend physical touch. This is the same terrain Suhrawardi described, the same world that Corbin called the mundus imaginalis. It is not merely subjective hallucination. It is an interface, a meeting place between the finite and the infinite.

In this hyperspace, archetypes take shape. Messages arise. The Divine, or the Field of Absolute Consciousness, makes itself known not through dogma, but through subtle pattern, expressed as symbols, morphing colours, vibrations. One might see kaleidoscopic geometry or a face that carries the weight of truth. One might hear a single tone that unveils a hidden part of the self. And following these directions of expressing awareness in the now, we can start recognizing who we really are. That is the meaning of ‘we are that’.

This inner map is not fixed. Each person experiences it differently, shaped by their inner landscape and symbolic language. But across traditions, Sufism, Tibetan Buddhism, Christian mysticism, Yogic practice, the reports converge: there is a world within, radiant and real, where vision and sound are the speech of spirit.

To step into this world is not to escape reality but to deepen one’s participation in it. It is to discover that the senses themselves, when turned inward, reveal the origin of all appearances. This is the hyperspace of the divine interface – the imaginal world alive in each of us, awaiting our presence, our attention, our stillness. Shunyam Adhibhu