How do we reconcile enchantment with the rational and secular tenets of modernity/post modernity?
There are those that advocate that we enter a ludic (playful) 
space in which reason and imagination cavort.

space in which reason and imagination cavort.
Yes, a sort of pagan dance of extreme distrust, morphing into reluctant worship, then sudden, unexpected spastic spurts of blind, unquestioning faith.
Faith in what? The Gods, the Omega point, Nietzsche's Eternal Return, Camus and Sartre's belief that there is no meaning and this gives their life meaning etc etc...but not the unitary 'One', let us not indulge our anthropomorphic bias.
In a ludic space we are not afraid of permanently partial identities and contradictory standpoints. me/other, believer/non believer. We move on from such rigidity for we are no longer in the infancy of our species.
So they argue and you know, I, for one, have sympathy for their argument.
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