“You see all those people with Bibles on their shelves, in their pockets… in their minds? Here’s the thing. Were any of those people to have any kind of authentic numinous experience, they would rapidly find their own congregations submitting them for psychiatric treatment. That is to say, normalization. The goal isn’t enlightenment or growth, it’s control. Which was, by and large, the goal of that text in the first place. That whole circumcision thing? Listen, if they will cut on the physical flower that represents and accomplishes direct connective intimacy, that is proof that they were already cutting on the connective flowers of the mind from the start. What taught me these matters clearly was holy, and cannot be found in books. My point.”

— an anonymous informant