... tried to make the best of both worlds, indeed of all the worlds -the best of Indianism, the best of Christianity, and the best of those Other Worlds of transcendentalexperience, where the soul knows ... uncovered, at the mercy of all the winds of circumstance. The poor Indian, on the other hand,has had the wit to protect his rear by supplementing the fig leaf of a theology with the breechcloth of transcendental ... I was now a Not-self, simultaneously perceiving and being the Not-self of the things around me. To this new-born Not-self, the behavior, the appearance, the very thought of the self it had...