In this chapter I undertake a detailed study of the entire spiritual path which Teresa promotes. By contrast, many contemporary thinkers excise limited passages from Teresa to lend their own agenda some historical weight. Both Forman and Alston, for example, employ short excerpts from Teresa to give their own favored experiences the heft of tradition. By culling from Teresa's vast corpus the particular experiences that most resemble those they wish to defend, they add gravity to their positions. Of all the different sorts of spiritual favors which Teresa relates, Alston singles out the intellectual vision as an exemplar of the particular experience he wishes to use to justify beliefs about God. He ignores all the other experiences and excerpts a passage from Teresa where she recounts an intellectual vision. He selects her famous vision of Christ at her side. He believes that her experience instantiates his model of the non-sensory perception of God.