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Lord, make us instruments of your divine madness. Make us empty so we can know the fullness of your mysteries. Help us experience who we are not so we can become who we are. Help us be serious about the absurd, and absurd about the serious. Fill our bodies and minds with creative energy and inspired expression. Bring us contrary visions. We rejoice in being spiritual idiots, fools, and imbeciles completely devoted to your unattainable wisdom. For these things we pray. Amen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

—-from Bradford Keeney’s “Shamanic Christianity: The Direct Experience of Mystical Communion”<\/a> (Destiny Books, 2006).<\/p>\n

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