“All that I know of Nature, Time, Light and minds leads me to the perspective that what we call our minds, were, originally, organs with which we linked intimately with other orders of intelligences. These were both the ‘parents’ and purposes of our minds, long ago. Like remoras on sharks, we ‘hitchhiked’ to sentience over long periods of human developmental time.

Then, there came a time when our non-ordinary symbionts ‘suddenly disappeared’, and our species went mad, and began inventing crude counterfeits to fill the hole left by this originary and ecstatic relationship. ‘The voices in our heads’ and the seemingly bizarre narratives of our religious books are the shadows of this ancient symbiosis, and yet… it is still possible, at least for some of us, to directly contact and participate in the original relationships, just as we did when we were very small. Or sometimes… when we are dreaming.”

— an intelligence agent