alan watts said it well, the alchemy, the search for the holy grail, it’s not what one commonly thinks it is.to acquire wisdom, to integrate your shadows, to choose the red pill over and over is not for the faint of heart(character), and the resulting freedom is nothing like one expected it to be.when are the voices of the wise most loudly heard? when suffering becomes unbearable. when the climax of the current system is beyond the tipping point and the narrative is not correlating with lived reality.