The Noetic Path: Book Excerpt

All three traditions, in their most rigorous expressions, insist on the primacy of direct experience over doctrinal authority. The Buddha's Kalama Sutta makes this explicit. 

All three traditions locate the ethical life at the center of spiritual practice. 

Most strikingly for the Noetic Path: all three traditions, at their contemplative depths, describe a relationship between individual consciousness and the larger structure of reality that exceeds what either traditional theism or scientific materialism can account for.