You are pretty grounded in analytical thinking and very comfortable, I would say, with rational logic, etc.
They don't come a whole lot more western than you, Hermann. Good thing you are not EO.
Is there something wrong with analytical thinking and logic? St. Gregory Palamas was well grounded in that too. The Ecumenical Councils certainly appear to have used them.
Do you really believe reasoned understanding and logic is a hindrance to spirituality and mysticism? Or perhaps that reason contradicts faith?
You appear to mistake us for practitioners of "Scientism" or "Cartesianism".