To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance. - Aldous Huxley

Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.

All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all.