Our human nervous system is always running hypotheses about the world around us, and putting together a simulation of this world inside us. Religions, social groups, and belief systems have tried to take over these programs to control how we perceive and how we behave.

The Great Work is the ultimate heresy, and it defies us to discard all programs and beliefs, to use everything as a tool without identifying with any belief, and ultimately to stand alone and naked in the face of the infinite.