“All of the powers whose representations we worship and fictionalize in our cultural associations have their basis neither in language, science or thought. All of these things we, as cultures, seek and adore the representations of… are not skills or special endowments of the chosen.

They are the faculties that emerge from the vastly misapprehended domain of intelligence we refer to with a single, deceptive word: dreaming. And the myriad potentials of its nature when it emerges in a mind at once both natural enough and prodigious enough… to sustain and develop these faculties whilst awake — for purposes more true than powers could serve.”

— an intelligence agent