the "intrinsic shimmering of being" (see separate note on this)
is a "spectral, undead, heretical taboo" in "the sado-thantalogical space of agrilogistics"
except for people who make it to "the VIP lounge of agricultural-age religion," to whom it is revealed as an "esoteric secret"
albeit offered in a "heavily mediated version in which you are told that you yourself are god"
"Axial Age religion can't help sprouting exotic esoteric flowers at the top of its supposedly sensible stem"
(all 49)
"consumerism makes 'spiritual' experience into its top access mode" (138)