Yes, I do believe that it is possible, and not only for novelists, to 'plug in' to an overmind, or Ur-mind, or unconscious, or what you will ..." (ix).

What these rules amount to, I would say, is love." (3)

But it was Shikasta now: Shikasta the hurt, the damaged, the wounded one. The name had already been changed." (24)

I said to them that those who decided to stay would be committing Disobedience. For the first time in their history, they would not be in conformity with Canopean Law." (46)

Shammat had fixed itself into the nature of the Shikastan breed, and it was they who were now the transmitter, feeding Shammat." (68)

This was true of all sects, groupings, 'parties': for what was remarkable about this particular time was how much they all resembled each other, while they spent most of their energies in describing and denigrating differences that they imagined existed between...