"Persons who have gone through the purging process of the descent through the circles of hell seem to emerge from the experience with remarkably similar viewpoints... One interesting quality of the enlightened is that they seem to have acausal or nonrational thought patterns... The enlightened mind simply has at its disposal increased areas of awareness.. In the language of psychology we can say that the enlightened person understands the influence of unconscious mental contents on conscious behavior..." --Zen and the Art of Imitating the Ineffable