Through a referendum your country has just adopted a ban on building minarets on mosques.
The good thing about history is that is serves to put the current events in its adequate perspective. In the 50's I was a catholic student who couldn't access the University of Zurich because it was a protestant centre. In those days (not that long ago) it was also prohibited for the steeples of the catholic churches to stand up above the skyline. As you can see, these things come from way back. The referendum seems an error to me and in Switzerland all of us intellectuals are opposed to this measure.

Your mystical vocation starts from a legend of chivalry.
Yes, the legend of Parsifal, which hints that we owe everything to Wolfram d'Eschenbach, a famous troubadour of the Middle Ages who could neither read nor write but who however, exuded a great knowledge in many facets of the story. In my adolescence I drowned in Parsifal's poetry and decided to dedicate my knowledge to its study and vagary.

Mountains play a unique role in Germanic mysticism, even in philosophy (Nietzsche), but some people place Parsifal's Montsalvat in the lands of Catalonia, specifically in Montserrat.
The legends don't belong to a specific country or specific culture, they are universal. The world's history is contained in them and they transform themselves as much as they transform. 
According to Wolfram d'Eschenbach, the Holy Grail was a fantastic stone that the angels took to a Brotherhood of Knights Templar, righteous and pious, of immaculate customs.  It is also argued that it was a Catalan, the Duke of Guyot who discovered a manuscript in Toledo which described this event.  Other sources attribute the Grial to Fagetanis, wise pagan descendant of Solomon who had the gift of reading the signs of the constellations that govern human destinies. Whilst observing the course of the stars, he saw a legion of angels carrying a stone that illuminated the night with its splendour. 
The truth is that Wolfram d'Eschenbach placed the Holy Grial in a castle at the top of a holy mountain, abrupt, mysterious and impenetrable called Montsalt. Each holy Friday the stone lavishes all the riches and wonders that Adam and Eve enjoyed in Eden. Monsalvat was placed within the confines of Spain which then was Arabic, in the Kingdom of Aragon and close to the Pyrenees, but another version of Germanic location, in Bayreuth, gained more strength.
 
Monsalvat is a “wild mountain”?
In fact, Parsifal's mysticism is full of evocations of savage nobility of the human spirit, what takes us to the origin of Eden. Montsalvat is a "wild mountain" and also a "mountain of salvation". I was educated precisely in that mysticism by the hands of the Benedictine monks in Engelberg, in the midst of the Swiss Alps.
 
But you also have strong roots in Barcelona.
It is a unique city, special. I knew it for the first time in 1951, when I came hitchhiking from Switzerland. It was very different from what it is now, but I sensed an intimate relationship with it, which the University Pompeu Fabra has shaped with the reception of my Bibliotheca Mystica et Philosophica; all in a fantastic space which, as far as I have understood, was a water deposit in its time… all very mystical. Many students from around the world come here to document themselves on an unparalleled bibliographic background:  students of humanities, religion, philosophy of thought and mysticism.

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