Jack

“It is the "law of the Great Below", the law of reality - things as they are - the natural law which is pre-ethical, often fearsome, always preceding the superego judgments of the patriarchy and often of what we would wish.”
― Sylvia Brinton Perera, Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women

“To sneer at religion is a hallmark of the perpetual adolescent.”
― Camille Paglia

“The dead night-world of the modern city, today an arid grid of glass and concrete.”
― Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

“In New Zealand, the deceased must pass through a very narrow space between two demons that try to capture him; if he is "light" he gets through, but if he is "heavy" he falls and becomes the demons' prey.”
― Mircea Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy