“Function and man appear synonymous because the function can only be pointed toward by being the function. There is no being except in a mode of being. [...] Both scholar and Christian are functioning in identical ways, just under different metaphor, and both are evading the mechanics of being.”
Joseph Chilton Pearce
The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality
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