Convictions Cause Convicts

"...and, finally, an uprush of "memories" of animal existence. I was an ape-creature, a rodent, a slug, a bug, a fish. I experienced a series of deaths-and-rebirths as animal, human, void, Star; molecular intelligence vibrating through time, and, at the peak, as union of Shiva and Kali, twin gods linked in eternal orgasm"
Robert Anton Wilson - The cosmic trigger vol.1