Thursday, July 13, 2006

Who needs religion?

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"A universal mystical experience with life-changing effects can be produced by the hallucinogen contained in magic mushrooms, scientists claim today.

"Forty years after Timothy Leary, the apostle of drug-induced mysticism, urged his hippie followers to 'tune in, turn on, and drop out,' researchers at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland, have for the first time demonstrated that mystical experiences can be produced safely in the laboratory. They say that there is no difference between drug-induced mystical experiences and the spontaneous religious ones that believers have reported for centuries. They are 'descriptively identical.'"