“If ... you are looking for a large dose of truth with some all too human foibles and faults and long nights of coffee drenched brains and frequent trips to the bathroom then this book is for you.”
― Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
― Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
“The Australian Aboriginal cave paintings, from this period, are the first hints of religion that humans have as proof of religious behaviour. The caves in which the paintings are found date to 50,000 years ago through forensic geology and carbon dating. Most of the images found in their religious stories and ceremonies are depicted in these caves. We also have confirmation from the aborigines themselves that these images are their religious images. These paintings also are likely to be significant evidence for linking the use of Amanita Muscaria to its use 50,000 years ago. This is because 50,000 years ago was when humanity entered Australia and also because Amanita Muscaria produces religious like experiences.”
― Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
― Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
“They did indeed use the AM in religious rituals and AM does have deliriant and hallucinatory effects and more. This would mean not only is it linked to religion and religious social structures in the ceremony, but there is a significant link that it produced these experiences by way of muscimol induced hallucinations. Since its consumption began fifty thousand years ago, it would put its use on the very beginning of religion itself. The idea that this is somehow a fallacy is far from the truth as not only is there a religious connection but the connection began at the same time.”
― Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
― Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
“If you are looking for a hate book you have come to the wrong place here. This book may be full of fact and discussion and even argument but it is out of concern, a concern that is not subject to some group partisan issues. It has opinion as well and this is most certainly what many critics will call many things in this book to the point that there will be whole essays of review that are just diatribes of psychological issues on both sides.”
― Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
― Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
“We can not, therefore, reserve as sacred anything that is not truth and yet we cannot turn from things of truth have inspired us in our everyday lives. We must merely embrace both hard and soft truths that must not be avoided. This does not mean we can reserve for ourselves the right to be self-righteous nor call others self-righteous simply because they disagree with us.”
― Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
― Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
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