In other words there is a great danger in facile and thoughtless verbalizations of spiritual reality. All true spiritual disciplines recognize the peril of idolatry in the irresponsible fabrication of pseudo-spiritual concepts which serve only to delude man and to subject him once again to a deeper captivity just when he seems on the point of tasting the true bliss and the perfect poverty of liberation. (p. 114)
Twenty years before
Jean Baudrillard wrote his philosophical treatise
Simulacra and Simulation, and nearly forty years before the
Wachowski brothers crafted the ideas into
The Matrix, Merton, in his genius, was already there.
