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by Jeanette Winterson

Any shaman or witch doctor, magician or astral traveller, witch or yogi can tell you that the human form is provisional. The journeys of the magical Adept were journeys outside of the body. Beyond the body. And surrounding the body there have always been other types of interactive energy, seen and unseen. The Little People. The Beings of Light. Our modern-day secularism, with its dogmatic non-quantum materialism, has made us less able to manage the psychological consequences of non-human embodiment than our ancestors.

As humans move towards a more blended virtual and material world, what ‘is’ and what ‘isn’t’ will not be obvious. Slowly, but surely, which is which won’t matter. Matter will not matter. Reality is not made of parts but formed of patterns. This is ancient knowledge and new knowledge. It is liberating. There is no fundamental building block of matter. No core. No floor. There is nothing solid. There are no binaries. There is energy, change, movement, interplay, connection, relationship. It’s a white supremacist’s nightmare.