We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.