God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. Its the same in religion.

Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.

Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.

Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so, too, for the Tiwis, who dissolve the distinction between themselves and the cosmos. In quantum physics, subatomic particles influence each other from a distance, and this tallies with the aboriginal view, in which people, animals, rocks, and trees all weave together in the same interwoven fabric.

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.