Reality is a Prison
"…Ordinary reality is like a bad imitation, a cheap parlour trick in a grimy hotel, an eternally baited trap for the mind and senses. The gnostics had this much right: we're trapped in our bodies and we can't see our way out. The day-to-day world we create with our perceptions has no independent reality; it's all done with mirrors."
--– Clark Heinrich, Strange Fruit: Alchemy and Religion ---