“We have too long supposed that the Unknown mysterium tremendum et fascinosum of religion was outside us, when in fact that Unknown, although ego-alien or unconscious, was all the while within us: the alleged “supernatural” is the human “subconscious.””

— Weston La Barre

Source: Hallucinogens and the Shamanic Origins of Religion (1972), p. 261

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anthropologist 1911–1996

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