Came across this and was reminded strongly of my gripes about Robert Pirsig’s understanding of mysticism, which I wrote about here. I’d want to rephrase some of the points about Kant in that paper, but I think the basic argument has held up quite well. Nice to know I’m not the only sceptic on that front (and that much of the reverence towards “Eastern religion” is in fact a ‘return of the repressed’ – in other words, the Eastern philosophies, Kyoto school etc, were first influenced by Western philosophy, before they then became popular in the West as something ‘foreign’).

I’ve started up my ‘Learning Church’ sessions again, which are still – remarkably – popular. I’m going to do three sessions on Christian Mysticism next month, when all of the debates I have had on the MoQ list will bear fruit, I trust.