Built Into Human Makeup Is A Longing

Only While They Are Conforming Their Actions To The Model Of Some Archetypal Hero Do The Arunta Feel That They Are Truly Alive, For In Those Roles They Are Immortal. The Occasions On Which They Slip From Such Molds Are Quite Meaningless, For Time Immediately Devours Those Occasions And Reduces Them To Nothingness.

Religion Is The Call To Confront Reality; To Master The Self.

Entheogens Are Not To Be Lightly Trifled With... However, If Taken With The Right Attitude And In The Proper Setting, Psychoactive Drugs May Produce Religious Experiences. ...it Is Far Less Clear That They Can Produce Religious Lives.

Historically, Religion Has Given People Another World To Live In, A World More Adaptive To The Human Spirit. As A Student Of World Religions, I See Religion As The Winnower Of The Wisdom Of The Human Race. Of Course, Not Everything About These Religions Is Wise. Their Social Patterns, For Example - Master-slave, Caste, And Gender Relations - Have Been Adopted From The Mores Of Their Time. But In Their View Of The Nature Of Reality, There Is Nothing In Either Modernity Or Postmodernity That Rivals Them.

I'm Not A Chauvinist. I'm A Universalist. I Think That God Imploded, Like A Spiritual Big Bang, To Launch The Eight Civilizations That Make Up Recorded History And The Religions In Those Civilizations.