Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination. - Joseph Campbell

People can go very badly awry in this individual quest. But when the quest is fortunate, there comes a lifetime of creative innovative action.

This thing up here, this consciousness, thinks it's running the shop. It's a secondary organ. It's a secondary organ of a total human being, and it must not put itself in control. It must submit and serve the humanity of the body.

In a wasteland the surface does not represent the actuality of what it is supposed to be representing, and people are living inauthentic lives. “I’ve never done a thing I wanted to in all my life. I’ve done as I was told.” You know?