AtDTDA 24: Psychical Espionage 670/673

[Monte Davis]

> TRP always seems close to satirizing the psychical... 
>  mocking and reverent... love-hate...

> I take this to mean that TRP believes in the psychic 
> realm while feeling that 
> most of its devotees are full of shit.

Bingo: I've never seen it better expressed.

My guess is that even (or especially) as a quintessential word guy, he
believes that the transcendent really is transcendent, the unspeakable
really is unspeakable. The minute we start *talking* about it, carving it
into doctrine and precept, the distortion and debasement begins. 

"Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent." Or Campbell: "The best
things cannot be said, the second best are misunderstood."