I apologize in advance for what may seem like a narcissistic and egocentric posting, and I must state that my goal is to talk about my spiritual path only because I believe - and hope - that it will resonate with the experiences of some readers. Raised in Spain and educated in a tolerant and enlightened Roman Catholic school of which I have only fond memories, I returned to my native England in the late 1990s where I enrolled at university and studied Literature. The title of my degree was quite generic, English Studies, but it should have been called ‘French Studies’ because the emphasis of the educational curriculum was on studying critical theory and focusing on the works of Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, Baudrillard, Althusser and Lyotard among many others. At first, I was fascinated by this approach to the study of Literature and Humanities because I had already read Nietzsche, Freud, Emil Cioran, the French Existentialists and the American Beats and these erudite Marx...