"What you see in the world, in some sense, is a set of animated cartoons. And a lot of that is actually a consequence of you seeing nothing but your memory. Because your brain is organized so that instead of going through all of the difficulty of having to look at the thing in itself, you look at what you assume to be there. And if you can get away with that, so much the better. But the thing in itself is always much richer than your apprehension of it, which is partly why you make mistakes, but also partly why you can continue to garner wisdom in the world. There's always more there than meets the eye. And God only knows how much more there's there than meets the eye. And you can show this, even in the religious sense, to some degree, because you can say that there's an element to the transcendent that instills people with a sense of religious significance. You can do that, immediately, scientifically, by feeding people chemicals, for example, that disrupt the inhibition of perception by memory and that puts them in a place where the transcendent tends to reveal itself, sometimes in overwhelming force. So it's not fiction that this exists. What's transcendent is more real than the reality that you perceive." 
- Jordan B. Peterson / Apprehending The Transcendent