Source: The Washington Post
Moses saw a burning bush. Paul saw Jesus on the road to Damascus. St. Teresa had ecstatic visions.
When psychologist William Richards looks at religion, he sees mystical experiences everywhere. The same sort of experiences, he reasons, that come from mind-altering drugs.
That’s why he’s giving magic mushrooms to religious leaders, for a research project based at Johns Hopkins University and New York University.
“There are — it’s so hard to put this into language — sacred eternal experiences that the human being is capable of having. They seem to be at the origin of most religions,” he said. “What we call the eternal seems incredibly real.”
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