[MD] are theism and mysticism mutually exclusive notions?

[Case]

[Platt]
I think rather than Pirsig taking a first crack at a metaphysics of
uncertainty he took a crack at a metaphysics of morality. Uncertainty is
such a familiar part of reality in our experience it needs no further
explanation other than no one knows for sure what will happen next.
Everybody agrees the future is uncertain and unpredictable except for death
and taxes. Nothing new here. No first crack. Just the certainty of
uncertainty. But what is new and astounding is Pirsig's claim that that all
that has happened in the past and will happen in the future can be
attributed to a moral force, to Dynamic Quality. Now that's a first crack at
a new metaphysics if there ever was one -- one that our science friends
would never conceive of in their wildest dreams.

[Case]
Ah, and what more fertile hotbed of uncertainty is there than morality. You
are saying that we know everything we need to know about it. I am saying it
underlies our every thought and action. Calculating and responding to
uncertainty it what organisms do. Biological, social and intellectual
systems evolve dynamically in response to the conditions of their
environments. Morality at least in the sense of a moral code is designed to
reduce uncertainty in interpersonal interactions.