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Ferguson told the Dallas Observer's Philip Chrissopoulos in 1997: "Music is a spiritual thing to me. It helps keep my sanity. I play music to heal. It is music to escape and think things through. Someone gave a definition of psychedelic music, and I wholeheartedly agree with it. He said that psychedelic music takes the negative aspects of life and transcends them."

Yet the roots of cosmic rock run much deeper, having more to do with the search for meaning or knowledge: of our origins, our final destination, our purpose; what Julian Cope in his book Krautrocksampler calls the "Explore-the-god-in-you-by-working-the-animal-in-you Gnostic Odyssey."