Admit that there are levels of being which imply a vertical organisation of more or less comprehensive integrations of experience - that's how it seems at any rate if you generalise from the roughly surviving remains of high culture. But then, since no level absolutely requires any another level, if the mystery of experience were to be resolved on any level it would be resolved on all possible levels in the same stroke. And so again, if it can be resolved on one level it can be resolved on any other level. This is another way of stating the odd antinomian conclusion that cultural intelligence is independent or, or 'orthogonal' to spiritual intelligence. This makes it all the more puzzling that the two goals seem inseparable when and only when viewed from a certain distance. If this is like St Paul's 'stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles' it is accidentally so, in that the same ideas naturally occur in quite diverse forms on different levels, the levels themselves being contingently related to each other when viewed along the spiritual dimension, while dialectially interlocked along the cultural.