We have no ideology. We have no theology. We dance.
—perhaps apocryphal remark of a Shinto Priest
Hallucinations, whether revelatory or banal, are not of
supernatural origin; they are part of the normal range of
human consciousness and experience. . . . They provide
evidence only of the brain’s power to create them.
—Oliver Sacks, “Seeing God in the Third Millennium”
Voices are either hallucinations or deceits of the physical world.
Joan of Arc may have had a tooth tuned in to a pulsar.
—Julian Cawthon