I've updated my Feb. 20 post on Robert Shea's All Things Are Lights.
Here (in part) how Shea described the novel in an interview (reproduced in my new Shea book, Every Day Is a GOOD Day.)
"The title comes from a medieval philosopher, Scotus Erigena, who said, 'All that are, are lights.' The main characters have an outlook that is as mystical as that statement, only their mysticism is not of the orthodox variety. The main character is a troubadour who achieves illumination in an adulterous affair with a countess through the rites of courtly love, which I portray as a westernized version of tantric yoga. The troubadour is also in love with a woman minister of the heretical Cathar sect. Nowadays they tell women they can't be priests; in those days they burned them at the stake for trying."
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