The Path Through This World

We are always rushing somewhere else, to some other, better world. We are uncomfortable here, in this complex, confusing, plural mess. We want out. Escape. Speed. Distraction. Entertainment. Suicide. Our desire for escape gets easily confused with spirituality--the desire for Heaven, the other world. This confusion is itself archetypal: but the path to the other world must lead through this one. Our struggle is first and foremost in this world. We cannot escape by ignoring it. Corbin, and many others, say we must be born again, but I think we must be born in the first place into this world, that we may, perhaps, be born again beyond it.
--Tom Cheetham, Green Man, Earth Angel, 25