 Findlay’s efforts in the Hegel book led to a change of method in his work. The requirements of analytic philosophy—the demand for clarity, the insistence on deductive connection of ideas-- gave way to a more flexible movement of thought, where many connections of ideas were declared to be “logical” even if the connection was less than deductive. Contradictions and antinomies were embraced; “clarity is not enough” became a rallying cry. The new technique for philosophy is described in Findlay’s article “Essential Probabilities” (1967a). Essential probabilism encouraged Findlay to return to his long abandoned book on the mind, published as Values and Intentions, in 1961. He returned to his youthful interest in metaphysics, presenting his own speculative system in two series of Gifford lectures, The Discipline of the Cave (DC, 1966) and The Transcendence of the Cave (TC, 1967). In the Gifford lectures, Findlay reintroduced the absolute that he had foresworn in his essay on God. He now conceded publicly that the monotheists were right to have an absolute, but wrong in the absolute they chose. “How odd/of God/to choose/the Hindoos”, says the preface to The Transcendence of the Cave. The later writings of the 1970s are footnotes and supplements to what is given in these three books from the 1960s.