“Before villages and settlements began "dividing" themselves away from the "outside" world, which could only have occurred when they became permanent settlements tied to agriculture, there was no Hedge dividing the world of humans and animals from the "spirit world." The Hedge is a metaphysical reality only to the extent that we make it so. And we no longer consciously make it so; we unconsciously conceptualize our experience of this world in that way, and thus, a lot of time has to be spent learning to "cross the hedge" or put our minds into a condition that lets it experience *more* of reality, including reality's hidden (to us) reaches.”