To the Western mind, participation with the non-human Others and with the numinous might suggest mysticism, or something unavailable to ordinary people. Yet this kind of participation is, even now, an everyday mode of being for at least some people—indigenous and others—who have not entirely succumbed to the age of reason.

~ Geneen Marie Haugen

Deep Tropical Jungle, Southeast Asia – photo by Quickshooting, bigstockphoto.com