Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. - Joseph Campbell

I have attended a number of psychological conferences dealing with this whole problem of the difference between the mystical experience and the psychological crack-up. The difference is that the one who cracks up is drowning in the water in which the mystic swims.

The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere — to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.