“Angels? You’re not ready to think in the terms required to get anywhere near the reality this word points at. These forces have about as much in common with your paintings and stories as a blurry sketch of a shoe has to do with the actual planet Saturn. Your stories and models are not even as nursery rhymes compared with what they point toward, or away from, as the case may be. Therefore, if you wish to understand, begin by simply discarding anything you have known. The universe is a billionfold more strange than human culture could allow for. If you want to understand universal culture, flush the stuff you are trapped in, first. What you call ‘Nature’ is more profound and strange than anything you can hope to solidify in your consciousness. For this reason, you must eschew your representations and, in every case, seek direct contact-intimacy.”

— an anonymous informant