Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.

Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.

One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?

No one knows enough to worry.

How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?