the human body is the crucible. Every mixture in a crucible is at first impure, diluted and confined. But the very act of living in the human body is a constant act of refinement and transmutation. What primal elements have been mixed and stirred and rarified in you or me? Gods and Goddesses are primal elements personified and they live a life through us even as we live through the elements of our body.Without them, we are dispirited. Most modern North Americans are so used to being dispirited that they don't know that their low energy state is not normal. They try to live by the weak lights of the ghost in the machine. Dispirited they are ripe for a dictatorship that moves in to fill the vacuum.
Consciousness naturally wants to expand. We need to taste and blend with other consciousnesses as much as we need food or drink. We are starving for this contact.