“As a society, we are in danger of needing larger and larger social wake-up calls and shocks to the system. At a socio-global scale, this translates into more strident demagogues, more desperate and deeply fundamentalist takeovers, massive cultural disruption and human displacement, more vicious, faceless wars, and literally larger openings in the earth to swallow us up.”

Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation by angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens, et al.