"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."

"The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or
Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the
properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and
whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive. And
particularly they studied the genius of each city & country, placing
it under its mental deity; Till a system was formed, which some took
advantage of & enslav'd the vulgar by attempting to realize or
abstract the mental deities from their objects: thus began Priesthood;
Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales. And at length they
pronounc'd that the Gods had order'd such things. Thus men forgot that
All deities reside in the human breast."

"Jim read as much and probably more than any student in class, but
everything he read was so offbeat I had another teacher (who was going
to the Library of Congress) check to see if the books Jim was
reporting on actually existed. I suspected he was making them up, as
they were English books on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century
demonology. I'd never heard of them, but they existed, and I'm
convinced from the paper he wrote that he read them, and the Library
of Congress would've been the only source."