Editing Allen Ginsberg (section)

===The "Blake vision"===
In 1948, in an apartment in [[East Harlem]], Ginsberg experienced an [[auditory hallucination]] while masturbating and reading the poetry of [[William Blake]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Morgan |first=Bill |title=The Typewriter Is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-4165-9242-6 |page=34}}</ref> which he later referred to as his "Blake vision". Ginsberg claimed to have heard the voice of God—also described as the "voice of the [[Ancient of Days]]"—or of Blake himself reading "[[Ah! Sun-flower]]", "[[The Sick Rose]]" and "[[The Little Girl Lost]]". The experience lasted several days, with him believing that he had witnessed the interconnectedness of the universe; Ginsberg recounted that after looking at latticework on the [[fire escape]] of the apartment and then at the sky, he intuited that one had been crafted by human beings, while the other had been crafted by itself.<ref name="On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg">{{Cite book |last=Ginsberg |first=Allen |title=On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg |date=1984 |publisher=The University of Michigan Press |isbn=978-0-472-09353-3 |editor-last=Hyde |editor-first=Lewis |edition=2002 |location=United States |page=[https://archive.org/details/onpoetryofalleng0000unse/page/123 123] |chapter=A Blake Experience |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/onpoetryofalleng0000unse/page/123}}</ref> He explained that this hallucination was not inspired by drug use, but said he sought to recapture the feeling of interconnectedness later with various drugs.<ref name="auto"/> Later, in 1955, he referenced his "Blake vision" in his poem "Sunflower Sutra", saying "—I rushed up enchanted—it was my first sunflower, memories of Blake—my visions—".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sunflower Sutra |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49304/sunflower-sutra |access-date=2025-03-26 |website=The Poetry Foundation}}</ref>