“You brought something with you. Something within you. It was at least partially, and more commonly completely co-opted by exposure to and acquisition of human culture. But it’s still inside you. It’s more that any sage or story can deliver, yet it is obvious, and simple. It is adventurous, curious, momentous, divine, and unstoppable. Even death fears it, and you’ve got it.

The problem is … it often appears to have been lost or stolen when in fact is it merely obscured. This is why we almost exclusively seek outside for it, or, at the very least, for its confirmation (should we re-discover it).

The thing is this. It is waiting for a signal that calls it into emergence, and the signal generally takes two forms: necessity and invitation.

It will emerge under certain forms of heroic necessity (and so, too, may other features of consciousness that mimic it), and it may emerge if it detects an extrinsic culture which is essentially friendly to it. In any case, it is more than all stories, and it is yours. Do not forget that you carry it. Its silence is no measure of its presence or power, but rather, of the contexts and behaviors in which you are most commonly immersed.”

— an anonymous informant