"We have shut ourselves off from the light and darkness has entered our souls. Our most valued form of thinking has declined from prayer to analysis, and analysis presumes what is false- that we stand outside of reality. It denies that we are immersed in reality and in denying our participation in Being, it is one of the causes of our spiritual malaise. We have been deformed by closing ourselves off from the Divine in existence."
-- Bruce Elder, from State/Intended: Some Reflections Parallel to The Book of All the Dead