In Panosophy, immanse is an intransitive verb meaning ‘to be in union with the Immanent Divine Essence we all share’, most simply called Love or Unity Consciousness. As a transitive verb, immanse ‘to go within limits’, is the opposite of transcend ‘to go beyond limits’, when an individual becomes entirely immersed in the surrounding world of form, as waves and currents on and beneath the surface of the Ocean of Consciousness.

Immansing happens through involution, by starting from the Omega Point of evolution, as all the divisions of the categorizing mind dissolve and merge into the undivided Immortal Cosmic Soul. A powerful exercise in this regard is neti, neti ‘not this, not this’ in Jñāna yoga, as the complement to colluminating, which brings Integral Relational Logic into manifest existence within the Cosmic Psyche.

The reason why English and the other European languages lack this word is that historically Christianity has been more focused on the remote, transcendent aspect of the Divine than on the intimate, immanent aspect, which we enjoy in solitude and divine lovemaking. This happened so that priests, who exclusively claimed to know the Word of God, could come between Divinity and the people, inhibiting the masses from being genuine Gnostics.

To heal this split in Immanence, Yehuda Berg tells us that the Zohar, the primary Kabbalistic text, “warned that the ‘governing religious authority’ would always try to prevent the people from claiming the spiritual power that was rightly theirs.” Such authorities would “act as an intermediary between man and the divine”. For if they allowed people to “connect directly to the infinite, boundless Light of Creation” that “would mean their demise as gatekeepers to heaven”.