Abstract

This article examines the possibility of experiencing intercultural dialogue as "dialogical dialogue" (R. Panikkar) that generates a "mystical experience of we" (Pope Francis) within the context of contemporary pluralism. The author argues that the current epoch change evidences the emergence of a pluralist stage that challenges Christian faith to give renewed and creative reasons for belief. In Latin America, pluralism presents the opportunity to live cultural diversity as gift and mutual enrichment toward intercultural coexistence. Using phenomenology and philosophy of religion, the study explores how authentic intercultural dialogue can become a religious experience through encounters with difference perceived as alter (neighbor) rather than alius (stranger). Drawing on Panikkar's framework of dialogical dialogue and his phenomenology of mystical experience [E = e (l.m.i.r.a)], the author proposes that intercultural dialogue in plural spaces can generate a transconfessional community subject capable of mystical experience of the Real. This experience maintains individual religious or spiritual identities while creating communion through mutual self-transcendence. The methodology integrates interiorality and exteriority, avoiding both fundamentalism and relativism through vertical openness to mystery and horizontal reciprocity. The ultimate goal is transforming pluralist spaces into epiphanic locations where the communional presence of the Real manifests as gift, generating wisdom for collaborative action toward authentic reality.