And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.

The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people they serve. The people they serve are like children within the game of culture. Only the shaman knows that culture is a game. Everyone else takes it seriously. That's how he can do his magic.

...the mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more complete in its grasp of information than any computer: the human body- its organs, its voice, its powers of locomotion, and its imagination- is a more-than-sufficient means for the exploration of any place, time or energy level in the universe.

To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.