A sharman is someone who has been to the end. Stepped outside the confines of learned culture and learned and invented language into the domain of what Lictenstien called the unspeakable. The transendental presense of the other, which can be absectioned in various ways to yield systems of knowledge which can be brought back into ordinary social space for the good of the community. So, what sharmen have to do is to act as examplars by making this cosmic journey to the domain of the gaian ideas and then bringing them back in the form of art to the struggle to save the world. The planet has a kind of intelligence that it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being.
History is the shock wave of the eschalon.
History is the shock wave of eschatology, and what this means, for those of us who will live through this transition into hyper-space, is that we will be privileged to see the greatest release of concresed change probably since the birth of the universe. The 20th century is the shudder that announces the approaching cadences of time, over which our species and the destiny of this planet is about to be swept.