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Is Kava Bad For Your Liver, The Best Kava Stacks, Psychedelics Role In “Knowing God” & Much More

Ben Greenfield Life

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Drugs and Sobriety in the Bible

Pharmacia that term directly translates into using drugs to divine with God or to divine with the spiritual world. It's actually a forbidden practice in the Bible right to go and say okay well let's take this pill or this compound and see what God has to say to me or enter into the spirit world. One of the mechanisms or the main theory behind what these compounds do is modulating a process called sensory gating in the brain through these five ht2a receptors.

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