Michael Eigen has often advocated and encouraged a return to the spiritual in psychoanalysis - what Freud called the 'oceanic feeling'. Here he expands on his call to celebrate and explore the meaning of mystical experience within psychoanalysis, illustrating his writing with the work of Bion, Milner and Winnicott. Like Bion, he explicitly relates psychoanalysis to faith. Both patient and analyst are immersed in each other and this immersion restores and enriches, and drains. Each has the chance to use their minds and feelings creatively. Each has to hold faith that something good will come of their work together. As Michael Eigen says, 'Therapy may involve skill, but it is also a form of prayer'.