my impossible hypothesis is not about returning to an exclusively vertical perspective. I have no wish to return to the religions. I did not announce my book on Esalen with the subtitle (drawn directly from Spiegelberg) “America and the Religion of No Religion” for nothing. But this does not mean that I am somehow against religion as coded expression of the fantastic either. Rather, what I most desire to do is affirm both the horizontal and the vertical, the ethical and the mystical, and in countless formations or relationships, not just one.
