>AZ Nomad wrote:

>>> You took a lot of acid when you were young, didn't you?

>>
>> Worse. It sounds like he got religion when he was young.

>No, when I was in my mid twenties, I took a couple years to read the
>Bible cover to cover. That eliminated any doubt I had as to whether it
>was not, in fact, a propaganda piece.

>Wasson, and now more recently, other anthropologists have gone into the
>sacred space, at the sacred time, and accepted the sacred potion from
>the shaman. And out of that, have had spiritual enlightenment, which,
>however, makes it abundantly clear how useless force is to compel others
>to think or believe a religion.

>They dont go to war in the name of Jesus or anyone else. They dont hold
>heresy trials, much less inquisitions, and the usual arguments of
>atheism do not work with them either.

>If you take 200 micrograms of LSD and dont directly experience the
>divine, I dont have a problem with it. But, as the Marsh Chapel study
>done at Harvard with pscilocybin suggests, that is a common reaction.

>If you lack the balls to try manipulating your synapese in this way, I
>do not have a problem with it, but to expound on the altered state of
>consciousness without having tried a sacred potion is like listening to
>a virgin try to define sex.