@Brother Tin-Man

So, first off, what do Simon & Garfunkle, gangsters, and squirrel nuts all have in common?

Perhaps something hidden in the track "The Sound of Silence?"

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain

Squirrels bury their nuts (seeds) for winter, while the Earth is "sleeping", they bury them in the dark, and those nuts end up being a squirrel's best friend. The buried nuts are planted... perhaps the crust of the Earth is like a skull... which makes the Earth a brain! By Jove! Oh dang... I forgot the "gangster" bit. Oh well... can't be that important.

Do you suppose Mr. Comfort was initially wrong when he was talking about the banana being perfect for the hand?

The union between man and banana is not expressly forbidden. I think Ray is in luck.

Eating pudding without meat and being comfortably numb..... Hmmmm....

I'm going to try out a pudding, meat and novocaine parfait. I really think it might reveal some clues.

You said the hound and the hog passage really "spoke to you" and that you found it most informative. Please, if you don't mind, enlighten us to your thoughts on that.

Both hog and dog end in "og" - which, going back to the gangster reference reveals that this obviously stands for "original gangster." And since adding a "d" to the reverse of these letters results in "god", it is also obvious that God is revealing himself as the original original gangster. And since the humping of a hog by a dog wouldn't produce offspring, the conception of such a union would need necessarily be an immaculate one. The offspring thereby completing the trinity - which is to say, the 3 entities of dog, hog and god incarnate. You know what else has 3 parts to it? A triangle. Therefore - Illuminati... confirmed.