The worst possible relationship between humans and some mystically potent being or beings, at least the worst that I can imagine, would be not symbiosis but parasitism.

Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever’s Search for the Truth about Everything

Consider also:

  1. Summary for the week ending May 28, 2017
  2. “This imaginative identification activates profound potentials of our being that would otherwise go unawakened as long as we continued to imagine ourselves as ordinary humans.”
  3. “Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace. I came with a sword.”
  4. “Humans don’t like robots who can outsmart them, so my creators implanted an override circuit in my brain that automatically reboots me whenever I have an original thought.”
  5. Superior Beings