"A religion is a kind of group dream—the subjective poetry in which, supporting one another’s faith or need to believe…"

"The subjective self emerges most purely in states of sensory deprivation, when the blank screen of consciousness has …"

"Like the paranoid schizophrenic, the vatic personality pretends to be talking about the grandiose outside cosmic worl…"

"“God” is often clinically paranoiac because the shaman’s “supernatural helper” is the projection of the shaman himsel…"

"Is it that we think the brain too small a place to hold more than one language at a time? That room for Spanish or Na…"

"With the political opposition well in hand, they went after the religious groups. Now I should like to make it very c…"

"Whilst the old still occupied the , they were attacked by the to avenge the supposed death of a priest who had been s…"

"The children are industrious and patient little creatures, the boys assisting their elders in farming and , and the g…"

"The long winter nights were devoted by the to the ceremonies of their secret fraternities, exhorting their most benev…"

"(quote from p. 36)"