For a vibrantly healthy science, art and religion,
both skepticism and mysticism must be kept
on something like a cultural leash.
Too much skepticism, and we’ll lose all contact with,
and our theories will no longer be informed by,
the spark of the wild, the unknown, and perhaps,
the divine;
Too much mysticism, and we will no longer be
able to deal with the hardnose, rugged, yet
neutral reality, of what is.