<p>This paper claims that embracing contingency as ultimate constitutes a shared sub-terrain of various accounts of mystical atheism. Discussions of mystical atheism often emphasize the rejection of transcendence and final purpose while affirming immanence and a plurality of meanings and purposes. Contingency plays a crucial role in this discourse, yet remains largely underdeveloped. This paper advances a positive account of mystical atheism by outlining the centrality of embracing contingency as ultimate. Rather than treating contingency as a threat that must be reduced or overcome, mystical atheism affirms it as the condition from which meanings and purposes emerge. By examining how philosophical and religious traditions have often opposed contingency through appeals to the non-contingent, abstraction, and time-slicing, this paper clarifies the distinction between contingency and non-contingency. Contingency is also considered as an approach to philosophical and religious reflection. This framework emphasizes situatedness, interrelatedness, temporality, accumulation, localization, sedimentation, and emergence. Discussions of these concepts provide resources for resisting worries that taking contingency as ultimate entails “anything goes” relativism or nihilism. A contingency-based approach understands meanings and purposes as emergent, sedimented in specific times and localities, and continually transforming. Mystical atheism is thus presented as a way of affirming contingency as an ongoing source of a plurality of purposes and meanings, while preserving a degree of unknowability, unpredictability, and uncontrollability in the world.</p>