Aldous Huxley. The doors of perception (№ 388367)

Innumerable of those individuals who wish semitransparency and would like to find her in the Church. But alas, "the hungry flock looks up and unfed". They take part in rites, they listen to sermons, they repeat prayers; but their thirst remains unquenched. Frustrated, they turn to the bottle. At least for a while it somehow works. The Church can still be visited; but it is nothing more than the Musical Bank of Butler's "Egdon". God can still admit; but He is God only on the verbal level, only in strictly pikviksky sense. A valid object of worship is the bottle and the sole religious experience is that state unchecked and belligerent euphoria which follows the consumption of the third cocktail.