Fundamental insights into the relations of soul and reality, for want of better terms, are not the property of everyone but largely of the charismatic through whom they are conveyed to the multitudes by channels of mimesis and mixing. There seem to be two or perhaps three classes of these, the negative, the positive and the dual. For the negative reality is hostile or indifferent to soul, so that the unaccommodated condition would be infinite pain, chaos and alienation. The positive view would have it that reality and soul are at the greatest depth one, that beyond the emotional turbulence given off by the successive surrenders of limitation soul will find itself entirely at home in the real. Since these two correspond roughly to the traditional images of hell and heaven, then we cannot ignore a third view in which both are true but the relation to soul is in a judgement which determines in each instance the appropriate destination. It is therefore odd to find X, driven by a searing vision of the negative into exhortations to live a religious life as the only possible bulwark against chaos, while Y, prompted by experiences of oneness exhorts his followers to abandon the remnants of religiosity as dangerous obstacles to attainment of an unfiltered vision of all-inclusive reality. Tragedy or comedy are the high stakes in such public metaphysics, which since it cannot itself be one or the other can only be played out as enigma.