∞ “I think we have the ideas of birth and death inverted: our human birth appears to me to be like the entrance into an exceptionally confusing and staggeringly layered array of bardos (dream-gaps). Whereas death is the sudden penetration of the veils that we are, in life, enveloped in. And so we may hope, then, to penetrate those veils whilst yet alive… and this, it seems to me… is the origin and purposive character of those ways of knowing and relation we speak of as ‘religions’.”

— an anonymous informant