He Had A Vision

One of the interesting facts about Allen Ginsberg is he had a vision. Ginsberg experienced an audio hallucination in 1948 while reading William Blake's poems in a Harlem apartment (later referred to as his “Blake vision”). The voice that Ginsberg initially claimed to have heard was that of God was later identified by him as reading Ah! Sun-flower, The Sick Rose, and The Little Girl Lost, which he also referred to as the “voice of the old of days”

The encounter went on for several days. Ginsberg thought he had seen evidence of the universe's interconnection. He noticed that the latticework on the fire escape had been made by a hand, and when he turned to gaze at the sky, he had the impression that the sky itself had been made by a hand. He clarified that his drug use did not cause this delusion, but he claimed that he afterwards tried to recreate the same feeling with different drugs. Ginsberg stated: “Not that some hand had placed the sky, but that the sky was the living blue hand itself. Or that God was in front of my eyes, existence itself was God”, and “it was a sudden awakening into a totally deeper real universe than I'd been existing in.”

Ginsberg took peyote in 1954 while penning Howl, which was one of those instances. While staying at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, he saw demon hallucinations that devoured children. The demon Moloch from Howl was modeled off this child-eating monster.