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In all religions, we hear of the Seven Planetary Genii: the Hindu tells of Seven Rishi, the Parsi of Seven Ameskaspentas, the Mohammedan of Seven Archangels, and our Christian religion has its Seven Spirits before the Throne.

Pikaia is a missing link because, of all chordates, it's probably the most primitive.

I do believe that there are creative chakras or different sorts of energy centers.

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.

Nic's Charlie is something very particular. You can't really put them together. It's a phantasm.

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.