Well, it is certainly possible to have an emotionally untainted (i.e., solitary) sense of spiritual experience, even to come to value spiritual experience precisely for this fact: it removes you from the chaos of ordinary consciousness, from the needs and demands of other people, from the dirty business of human love. But there is a death in this. Solitude is an integral part of any vital spiritual life, but spiritual experience that is solely solitary inevitably leads to despair.
