The Structure of the Spiritual World: The Lands and the Ways. We imagine the spiritual world as a gigantic universe with skies, lands, seas, mountains, plains, rivers, forests, swamps. Travel in the Spiritual World: Methods and Powers. Spiritual Writers and Works: A Parallel between East and West. In this immense world of the spirit we need methods and powers, otherwise we cannot move. As we move with history we shall see how the mainstream of spiritual experience develops along similar and dissimilar lines. The final section deals with Chinese spirituality as expressed in the early undifferentiated tradition of the Ancient Sages and later on in Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism up to the present time.