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EP 151 — Paul Chek: The People Who Changed My Life

Spirit Gym with Paul Chek

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What Is the Difference Between Religious Experiences and Psychedelic Drugs?

Professor huston smith knew that there was tremendous resistance to the use of psychodelic medicines. He asked researchers and church leaders if they could write down what their mystical or spiritual experiences were on drugs like lsd or siliciben, or mescalin or mushrooms. And then he went to the hier ups and churches and got them to go into their congregation and have people in their congregation write down the experience they were having when they were having what they would call a religious experience Or in contact with god. In every case, there was corulate experiences that were had by both groups. You could not possibly distinguish a religious experience induced by chanting, prayer, dance or any other

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