As I look back over my earlier interests, two areas stand out in particular. The first is that of Meister Eckhart and the second of Celtic Christianity. The former taught me a good deal about what a powerful language metaphysics can be but also showed me, in Eckhart's work, the capacity to think 'being' or 'existence' together with life and the pursuit of the good. In the case of the latter it was the power of the imagination which attracted me. Celtic Christianity is metaphysically naive but has a profound capacity to move us through sound and image. If Eckhart talked of the imagination primarily in terms of the intellect and its unconstrained capacity to go where it will, then the Celtic material on which I once worked was full of imagination as movement and life.
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