there is another particularly glaring current of modernity that is most relevant here, both for its careful focus on the intricacies of “experience” and the structures of “consciousness” and because it initiates a stream of thought in which the central subject of this chapter, the medieval kabbalah historian and philosopher Elliot Wolfson, participates.5 The same philosophical practice—which really comes down to the conviction that it is consciousness itself that is the source of all knowledge and truth—also helped birth the modern comparative study of religion, a practice that vibrates at the
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