Great old words by Alan Watts
Laws and artificial restraints when through the illusion of
Separateness, the individual loses touch with his organic
intelligence and feels at odds with his environment. Obviously the
operation of organic intelligence is not to be confused with the
false spontaneity of actions deliberately calculated to be at
variance with natural order or human law. Social conventions still
govern those who go out of their way to oppose them." --Alan Watts

"On one hand, when it is necessary that the people be exploited and
oppressed, it is important to imbue them with a servile mentality. On
the other hand, people are vulgar and greedy, the mere idea that "all
is God" or that good and evil are polar is used to justify every
wanton excess. It is for this reason that governments forbid the
ingestion of hemp flowers and other psychedelic substances, lest
immature and half civilized individuals profane the mysteries. One
does not wish noble wines to be used for drunken brawls." -AW

"In this endeavor they resort to such crude wisdom as may be
expressed in linear signs, words, and numbers for the government of a
non-linear and immeasurably subtle world. And as the person is a
linear version of man, confused with the real man, so the linear
understanding of the world--with which linear wisdom must deal-is
confused with the real world. Only by violence, then, can the real
and living world be straightened out, squared away, evened off, boxed
into clear-cut categories, and so conformed to the crudities of
linear wisdom. Consequently, all the balances and interdependencies
of nature are thrown into confusion--to the bewilderment of birds,
beasts and plants, and the bewilderment of man's own non-linear body
and brain. In such an emergency it is necessary to take the risks of
exposing the illusion of the person and all its works, and to allow
what has been esoteric to become generally known."