Liber Null and Psychonaut by Peter J. Carroll

“As a species, we started to form pretentious theories about cosmic gods only when we mixed up our own megalomaniac psychology with the vestiges of shamanistic knowledge. The monotheistic God is only an idealized image of ourselves or our fathers or our kings writ large. The perspective of the telescope now indicates that this idea was childishly small. No wonder the Inquisition burned astronomers.”

-Peter J. Carroll, 1987