RE: Atheists: have you ever had a religious experience and what did you make of it?
January 22, 2015 at 8:33 am
(January 22, 2015 at 6:26 am)Alex K Wrote: I wish I remembered who it was, but I heard an interview by someone who'd describe a trip they were on.
He describes thinking about stuff and suddenly having this mind-blowing insight, an idea that let all the pieces fall into place about the nature of life, the universe and everything. He felt like a mental giant who had cracked the deepest question of humanity.
He quickly took a piece of paper and wrote it down lest he'd forget it.
The next day, he found a piece of paper in his pocket, and someone had scribbled on it - "The wall is green" (*)
(*) I may misremember the color
Here's my useless profound insight. I decided to try 5MeODMT and acquired a bit - it's not illegal or anything. Measured out a dose and injected it IM. Immediately, I was a different person in a different universe. In that world, there was no gender or sex at all - everyone and everything was neuter. However, I'd spent my whole life (there) knowing that somehow I was different, but not knowing how exactly, and being too afraid to investigate. Bit by bit, I came to the awareness that I was deformed, but this time, I decided to face it. I disrobed and looked at my crotch, realizing for the first time *how* i was different from everyone else - I had a penis. I touched it, and immediately started to get erect. Keep in mind that this persona had never seen a dick, nor had any idea what one might be for. It felt good, and I started to realize that I wasn't deformed, that I was good and right. And got harder. I understood maleness, and all that it means, and BAM I came like a volcano and ..... I was back in this world, with jizz on the fucking *ceiling* and utterly nonplussed. The whole experience took about 20 minutes.
I mean, it was a fantastic orgasm - the whole rush of righteousness combined with the erotic, but as for insight, it was utterly useless. I was expecting jaguars and snakes and shamanic crap - I got my penis. Go figure. Does that qualify as a religious experience?
My book, a setting for fantasy role playing games based on Bantu mythology: Ubantu
