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. “I drew my own conclusion, which was that there is an entire category of experience that is not suited to intraspecies communication, so you are advised to keep it to yourself.”
  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. “I existed all right, but I existed only as a condition of constant desiring and yearning, because I knew nothing.”
  4. Another in my “Symbiosis” series
  5. another from ‘Symbiosis’