“Many of the faculties we associate with the paranormal, will be discovered to comprise intelligence assets peculiar to the right-hemisphere’s way of being in the world. These do not function by ‘crossing distance’ in time or space, so much as they act upon a singularity which is at the living core of identity itself. In effect, the distance they are ‘reaching across’ is not time or space, it is the myriad dimensions of distinction that exist between what appears to be an individual — and what may be understood as a domain or superposition of transcendental unity. This ‘strange gap’ is the province of both the Shaman and the ‘Psychic’ (I should also mention the child), and these skills are properly ‘spiritual’ precisely because this is the word our species uses to describe that mode of distance, though few of us posses even the slightest awareness of its actual nature or structure. In essence, ordinary sensing is like the left hemisphere’s way of intelligence. Nonordinary sensing is like the right-hemisphere’s way of intelligence. The former is founded on the latter, but believes itself God. Most of the delusional replacements for both aspects of intelligence (and their proper reciprocal union) involve significant malfunction of basic semantic and cognitive assets such as the capacity to distinguish between a description of some situation and the (utterly unrelated except through abstraction) situation described.”

— an anonymous informant