[MD] are theism and mysticism mutually exclusive notions?

[gav]

i don't think so, but i am interested to hear what
others think.

mysticism: ultimate reality conceptually unknowable

theism: there is a god/are gods.

if 'god' is conceptually unknowable, is this
equivalent to mystical theism? 

and what of pantheism? i dig that particular idea of
'god'. ie that the universe is god, or a manifestation
of it.

or is the term 'god', unlike quality, an explicit
concept? hence DMBs, Pirsig's and ant's aversion to
theism? perhaps......

'god' has more static connotations than
'quality'....and because of that is less useful as a
mystic marker...perhaps. yes 'god' seems static to me,
whereas the Tao and Quality are more dynamic,
'process' terms.

so i guess i have just had a bet each way....i think
god is simply not a good term for pointing to a
dynamic ultimate reality: too static.

hold on i think i just changed my own mind!


		
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