Sarah Lane Ritchie: Can Psychedelics Make You Believe in God?
A People's Theology
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The Importance of Set and Setting in Psychedelics
The context of religious communities and rituals are extremely influential in creating a religious experience. Not all people who have or who takes psychedelics have what they would report as religious experiences. The important thing here is that those for whom the experiences are the most transformative and have the longest term good effects on their psychological well-being, those are the people who tend to report a religious or mystical dimension to their experiences. "It's not just the drug doing it, it's also what you're bringing to the table," he says.
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