The mind is as much a product of the world in its self-determined process as any other form of life or aspect of such a form, such as a leaf or a bird's feather. And yet the mind never feels itself to be fully at home in the world, but not necessarily so, only in so far as it arises within certain cultural formations, that is large scale morphologies of mental being, themselves arisen out of natural process. That is always where you are located and where your horizons are determined. If there is a counter-current anywhere in this flowing against the grain and towards an opening to the question of being, this is an exception and hedged around with all the immune responses that the will can muster. The will to identify with any such a current can only be a form of such a response, its subtlety cannot be overestimated and should not be underestimated. The only arms you have are "silence, exile and cunning".