Did you know that magic mushrooms are scientifically proven to cause religious experiences?

Did you know that magic mushrooms are scientifically proven to cause religious experiences?

I had a profound mystical experience through the use of psychedelics. I had a hallucination that God/Universe spoke to me. It told me the who/what/where/why's of the Universe in a way that imparts an understanding far beyond what words/images could ever convey. These answers where very much inline with my current beliefs, with a few exceptions. Then I found many other people in history that have had very similar experiences, and came to very similar conclusions. Some of these where likely due to use of psychedelics, but most were not. Psychedelics are naturally occurring in the brain, and psychedelic experiences can happen without intentional ingestion. Such as dreaming. Does a bio-chemical explanation for mystical experience validate or invalidate it's significance? Similar hallucinogenic experiences should be expected, that doesn't mean it is any more true. Similar visual experiences of the color blue would be expected, that doesn't mean blue exists anywhere but our minds.

So do I believe it was a truly mystical experience? I believe it doesn't matter. Does it matter if no one experiences blue quite the same way you do? Does that invalidate your perception of blue? Human perception is reality. There is nothing more true then what we can personally experience. Even if no one else perceives it the same way. There is a very long and convoluted train of thought here that ends with an understanding that we have a very powerful ability to mold our reality based on the way we choose to experience. Religion makes religion true, mystical experiences make mystical experiences true, Jules Verne's predictions made Jules Verne's predictions true.

I don't pretend to know exactly how far the law of attraction can work to manifest realities of our choosing. Instead I want to imagine a future in which it is bounded only by my imagination. I imagine a future in which the Flying Spaghetti Monster can be manifested, I imagine a future in which any religion's God can be manifested, and any religion can be manifested. I imagine that once people understand their ability to create a God and are boundless in our ability to manifest reality, a new age of humanity/Universe will evolve. So I'm writing a line of fiction based on this imagined future.


"Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense."
"In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is never to let them find out. "
~Robert A. Heinlein

I think we are going to see a rising fad of Atheism, but it will only be a fad. It fails to account for an innate human need for religion and ritual. Soon science will show that Man Can See the Future, the Universe is only a holograph of a more complex reality, a better reality created through group-sourcing and voluntary cooperation, and we may even be able to self induce Synaesthesia and be able to see time.

This will then cause a cultural shift towards believing this is the greatest discovery man has ever made, because after all the human mind is the most important attribute we ever have. Pop-culture will see another purpose of psychedelics. Society will step behind the cultural mask, and learn that all those fascinating spirits demons and magical phenomena are in fact effects in the hands of technicians and theologians guiding the society, and mankind will discover true freewill.

A few of the major influences of this work will be Carl Jung & Synchronicity/Collective unconscious, Alice Bailey and Theosophy, Omega point, Aleister Crowley & Thelemic mysticism, Hermetic Qabalah, Gnosticism, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Daniel Pinchbeck, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Immanuel Velikovsky, ...and a world filled with Post Human Gods.

"But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge." ~God and the State by Mikhail Bakunin