I know there is some truth to the statement, “We are spiritual beings having a human experience,” but there is perhaps more truth in an alternative statement: “We are biological creatures, wild animals, in which spiritual experience happens.” Our bodies are our wildness, a wildness which we are oppressing and driving to extinction as we do with every other wildness. And it is our human social constructions—our ideas, conventions, assumptions, belief systems, cultures, civilizations, religions, and all their words upon words—that drive us to do so.
