I've known about that toad, but I've yet to meet him. I'm grateful for your reflections. I used two extremes in one analogy to show the absurdity of it, but I think you're right in saying the balance is being in the world, not of the world. I also think that it's useful to use this definition of ideology: ideology is the act of fabrication or use of false constructs in order to cope with uncertainty. Examples are: assuming the laws of physics are constant and homogenous everywhere in our universe, which hinders the study of what they actually are. Or, assuming we are our body, which fails to explain psychosomatics or relocation of memory. Or, believing in God, ruining the ability to have faith and keep your senses open to witness what that may actually be.