Does Knowing God Just Take Practice?
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It's happened before, and some have even argued that the major religions have their roots in psychedelic use.
Having powerful mystical experiences has been shown to be pretty common on psychedelics, new psychedelic religions are springing up all the time, and it's likely that this trend will only accelerate with increased psychedelic use.
It'll be interesting to see how the major religions react to this. In recent centuries they've been pretty put off by the idea that psychedelics (or any other authority than their own) could give people true religious revelation or authentic religious experience, but it is possible that they might change their minds if they see the psychedelics actually re-enliven people's sense of the sacred and start bringing them back to the fold.
Is it beyond imagining that one day we'll see religious ceremonies involving psychedelics in mainstream churches, synagogues, and mosques?
Not the ones the become "spiritual" and feel a connection to a "universe energy" but people that tie it into their individual sentience beings from another plane like angels or their God from a known organized and Abrahamic religion.
Stands to reason that this could strengthen the connection especially with the susceptibility enhanced from a guide or religious leader.
With some decriminalization this could be more publicly experimented with. Not quite retail legalization but probably tolerated enough in some counties that the religious law abiding citizens would feel comfortable doing it.
You might be interested in reading about María Sabina,[1] who introduced Gordon Wasson (and, through him the whole rest of the world) to the magic mushroom.
Through action and inaction (karma) we get to know ourselves and our relationships.