“It’s not precisely, as Alejandro Jodorowsky (is said to have) said, that birds born in a cage think flying is an illness, but rather that humans born into the vast and multiple cages of modern culture know nothing about the 37 modes of flying that are their own inner nature … 33 of which they will live and die without hearing of.

Perhaps many of these would be thought to be illnesses, not because they resemble sickness, but because they resemble nothing with which we have become familiar. And so the vast portion of our accessible humanity, potentials, opportunities and gifts will, for most of us, remain hidden or misconstrued, misnamed, rejected, misunderstood or simply absent from our experience.

Yet, just beneath the suffocating shells our cultures imposed upon us in childhood, it is as if there lives a vast world of creatures and living places, unimaginable, profound, impassioned, curious, and hopeful of their eventual discovery (and enaction) in and as our own human nature and activity…”

— an intelligence agent