"Each society lays down certain guidelines of what constitutes sanity, and by a combination of these cultural pressures and our own need for acceptance and conformity, most of us end up inside these prescribed limits. A few individuals manage to shake off the restrictions of sanity and get away with it, because they do so within the sphere of a religion in which such activities are permissable because they have been labelled "divinely inspired". Far from being confined, many of the people who have had this kind of transcendental experience return to society with a new view of things and proceed to change their way of life and ours..."

- Supernature Llyal Watson