✦ How are atheistic critiques a great help to mystical understanding?

✦ And what subtler way of knowing goes beyond all concepts?

✱ In this video essay, I discuss Michael Buckley’s excellent book Denying and Disclosing God: The Ambiguous Progress of Modern Atheism. In particular, I examine

★ how one common argument for atheism starting in the nineteenth century made inroads

★ how mysticism has taken this atheistic argument to heart

★ why another human faculty (seemingly yet not totally lost) is necessary in order to apprehend the Divine Source

I conclude with a thought experiment that intends to point to that which some sages call “God.”