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Atheists: have you ever had a religious experience and what did you make of it?

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RE: Atheists: have you ever had a religious experience and what did you make of it?

January 21, 2015 at 2:03 pm (This post was last modified: January 21, 2015 at 2:03 pm by Faith No More.)

(January 21, 2015 at 12:01 pm)tantric Wrote: The horrible bit about my Burroughs trip is that it *worked*. The stuff I wrote then was better than anything I've ever done. I look at it now and I'm amazed. It really is a literary drug, too bad about the absolutely destruction of the rest of your life.

For amusements, I can tell you about my only DMT experience, which transported me to a world totally without gender and allowed me to discover my penis for the first time. No meaning, but very entertaining. The power of a drug that can cause you to become a completely different person, from a different universe with different memories is frightening.

I never felt anything but lethargic off of morphine and never really got any creative impulses from it. My best writing was always done on dissociatives and hallucinogens.

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell

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Atheists: have you ever had a religious experience and what did you make of it? - by tantric - January 18, 2015 at 2:49 am

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