Beauty and spiritual dignity are inherently subversive, you see. Holding out for them makes you a pain in authority's ass. That book changed my life. We live in a world where everything's geared around possession and acquisition. But that's bullshit, man, meaningless.
Life is really a Be-In.
It's about Being, Experience, not Having. We are only in the foothills of Reality, whose head is in the clouds. Musicians, right, are like Sherpas on the climb. The attempt to go further into otherness and elsewhereness, in search of Reality, is at one and the same time a disappearance and an approach. You disappear from here, you approach there.