Pity us then, ivanveen. And if we lived in the 14th century, not too long ago, there would be no motorized engines, no electricity, no lasers, no airplanes (that would have really seemed bonkers), no surgery (at least none you'd really survive from), no computers, no cds, dvds, no space shuttle, no landing on the moon, no mars rovers (whoa, talk about visiting other worlds!), no solar system, no galaxies, no black holes, no satellites, no science fiction (now that would have been heresy!), no chemotherapy, no contact lenses let alone lasix, no quantum physics, no chemistry, no telephone, no internet (some truly ghostly things you can't see with your eyeballs), no equal rights, no civil rights, no evolution, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., and god knows what they would thought of TV and cinema! Light projected on a wall? Yikes! And, oh, the world was flat and you would be damned is not thought crazy if you thought it was round.

Get a grip! It took dreamers to go out and imagine and discover and develop those things. People who dared to fantasize and believe there was more to reality than meets the "eyeball". Things and ideas fantasized that are now, hmmmm...REALITY!! I wonder where the human race would all be if everyone thought like you back then? Probably died out long ago. Face it, it's dreamers, the people who see beyond their eyeballs, who keep the human race alive.

Although I appreciate your sentiments about the beautiful world we live in. I go out and look at it everyday. To me that IS soul. And to a lot of us exploring what else there might be is necessary to life. Maybe you want to live in your tight little box. I wish you the best tight little box you can live in. Go for it! Be happy! But I don't want a box to squeeze my self and life into one. Nope. Not going to happen. And your insisting that rest of us have to or be idiots won't make it happen. Oh, and I don't believe in any of those things you mentioned by the way, except for probably soul. And that there's more to "reality" than meets the eye. And that people can call that "more" what ever they want. Elves, Jesus, or Yeti. As long as it breathes fire into their imagination. Which is what Castanada's writings did. Live and let live!

This piece is absolutely eloquent. And I've thought this for a long time. It means a lot to me, at least, to know that there are other people who see what is truly happening, how America has sold its soul in this war and the suffering of the people of Iraq. And the suffering and death of people everywhere from the blind justifications of war. No more perfect words were said. Thank you!