“The people I best trust to clear my vision and help me establish the precursors and catalysts of insight… are not really members of any popular culture, and, largely, do not subscribe to its descriptions or values. They may or may not participate in or comprise subcultures but when they do, these are often obscure enough to appear publicly eccentric.

In general, if they are enthusiastic about something, it has little to do with trance or suggestion-inflated exacerbations of ephemera or mystical models of hidden realities. They reserve their interest and commitment for opportunities that revolve around how to see, sense, with greater depth, finesse, and reliability.

This goal produces a crucial and otherwise scarce benefit as a side-effect: active protections from all that would assail one’s ability to see, sense, relate, understand, and learn. That is an enemy too vast and mysterious to face without a powerful ally.

Clarity becomes like breathing within such endeavors. One must re-establish it in just such a fashion; and for that, close allies who understand both the terrain and what is at stake are invaluable. If these cannot be located, they may be personated, directly, and this last remark fairly confirms the first.”

— an anonymous informant