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Listener Mail: Forcing the Mentally Ill into Hospitals, Hallucinogens and Religion, Strange Lights in Michigan

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Gatekeeping Without the Bad Connotation

V: I'm always fascinated just without the psychedelic aspect of it at all, just how certain religions don't allow people to speak directly to God. And that's sort of the crux of these email, the idea of like keeping people apart from spirituality in some ways. Yeah, if you can prevent someone from having whatever that religious experience is, you know, especially early on, then, yeah, you could maintain control probably if that religious experience unlocked a real truth, right? To existence to life to God to something like that.

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