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 Originally Posted by oskar
Anyone who calls himself an agnostic-atheist has thought things through enough to reject any theistic deity as completely absurd and astronomically unlikely, but to someone with a less stable grip on reality it sounds like you are a seeker who just hasn't heard the right proverbs yet.
Hey man, we're like all seekers.
When you, like, hear the right proverbs... maybe it won't be with your ears. Maybe they won't be from a book... maybe like... one day... it'll click and you'll know, man.
On NPR yesterday they were talking about religious experiences induced by psilocybin. I wish I could find the podcast online and I sent an email to the station without word back.
But they had 20 guys who were going to some religious school that preps priests. On an Easter they took them to the basement of a church and gave 10 a placebo and 10 magic mushrooms.
This one dude had this incredible story about his experience, how he was standing in this circle with colored light emanating in each direction taking him to some other place and time and he had to choose one but he couldn't. It began to tear him up inside and eventually he heard some old dude's voice that he knew say something like "I will die for you this one time, Death. But that is all I will do." and then he died.
After the experience, 9/10 of the mushroomers went on to become full-fledged preachers while 0/10 of the placebo did.
I thought it was pretty cool.
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