" a free spirit in the oneness of the whole enchilada, seeing the world -- material and immaterial -- for the all-inclusive miracle it is: not a continuous undifferentiated glob of stuff, mind you, but more like a great spiraling web whose interconnected threads are beaded with pulsing blips that as much as anything else resemble notes of music. I’m all too aware of how woo-woo this sounds, but it was as real "

― Tom Robbins , Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life