I cannot repeat this enough: impossible thinking is an expression of a deep and most profound humanism, a paradoxical superhumanism that recognizes that what we think of today as the “human” cannot be identified with any culture, religion, or society and that understands the further reaches of this human have indeed been most fully imagined and practiced—if, yes, usually in unconsciously projected and specifically culturally refracted ways—in the symbols, rituals, and myths of the history of religions.
