" It’s unfashionable these days to notice that a great many human beings have had, and continue to have, experiences that they describe as interactions with such powers by way of the teachings and practices just mentioned, and so scholars in a baker’s dozen of disciplines and more have busied themselves coming up with other things that religion must “really” be about. "

― John Michael Greer , The Secret of the Temple: Earth Energies, Sacred Geometry, and the Lost Keys of Freemasonry