ABSTRACT
In the two previous chapters I have tried to define the emerging genre of what I call spiritually-engaged knowledge. I argue that it is ethically based, arising from the encounter with the Other that defines an 'ethic of meeting'. This spiritually-engaged knowledge marks out a transcendent domain that is non-rational, non-discursive and non-personal. It demands an epistemological modality based, not on power, but on attentive love, and it points to an ontological modality that is subjective but not personal or individual. I have referred to this alternative genre of knowledge as 'spiritually-engaged' because it seems to require a mode of subjectivity that is non-egoic, that might be said to arise after the bounds of ego have given way. In this chapter I want to engage with the domain of spirituality, since it is there that this alternative way of knowing has been most fully explored.
