1 Why Don’t You Shut up Already? Enforcing the Boundaries of Materialist Scholarly Canon Mike Sosteric Abstract This article examines the silencing and suppression of discourse that surrounds discussions of mystical experience, not only in Sociology but in wider fabric of academia. For submission to Religions Special Issue "Autoethnographic Reflection on Spirituality, Mysticism and Consciousness: Transformations in the Academy and Beyond " Version .90