One of Mike King’s most unique points is that the Western Enlightenment—from Voltaire through the German idealists—was a failed ‘religious revolution … rather than the success of a secular revolution [which intended] to destroy religion.’ The true goal of the Enlightenment philosophers, according to King’s reading of their work, was to move Western culture from a devotional religious context that denied the world to a context that emphasized direct knowledge, or mysticism, and embraced the life process. But the project failed, resulting in a split between devotional traditionalists and an ‘autistic’ secular scientific community that cannot discern the sacred or deeper dimensions of experience.
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