“There are some 750 dangers as deadly in your relationships with language and knowledge as any you have imagined from anywhere — any 12 of which are effectively powerful enough to steal most of the momentum, creativity and potential from your mind forever. In extended culture this figure is magnified 10 fold. We do not send our infant children, naked, squalling, and covered in delicious-to-predators sauces and scents, into cages filled with starving lions, tigers, bears, sharks, and so on.

We do, however, do this with their minds, and our own, and not just once, but every day throughout our lives. If we become aware of these dangers, many of them turn into opportunities for what would otherwise -appear- as cognitive and relational superfunction, but which are, in truth, little more than our ordinary developmental potentials, freed from the unthinkable burden that these features of our common representational activity comprise.

If we simply take off the chains that some of the most common and severe of these errors comprise, the Pegasus of human intelligence will emerge from its long self-protective masquerade as a tortoise, and in that moment we will taste a form of flight whose only presence in our lives and minds has been as crawling. Come. It is time to be done with being slaves to artifacts in our habits of relation with language and knowledge. It’s 2013, not 1959. Let’s go, together, to that new terrain. There is something waiting for us there that is more interesting than all of science, religion and history. And it is ourselves.”

— an anonymous informant