We All Carry It Within Us: Supreme

The Heart Of Religion Is Not Altered States But Altered Traits Of Character. For Me, Then, The Test Of A Substance's Religious Worth Or Validity Is Not What Kind Of Far-out Experience It Can Produce, But Is The Life Improved By Its Use? That's The Test. Now, On That Score, If You Remove The "religious Cocoon," The Experiences Don't Seem To Have Much In The Way Of Discernible, Traceable Effects.

In India There Was A Sense Of Time That Does Not Tick With Modern Clocks, Just As There Is A Knowledge That Is Not Gained Through Science And Empirical Experiments. In The Modern West Knowledge Is Of Objective, Finite Particulars In Historical Time. India Recognizes That Kind Of Useful Information: It Calls It "lower Knowledge." Higher Knowledge (paravidya) Proceeds Differently, Or Rather It Doesn't Proceed At All But Enters History Full-blown On The Morning Of A New Creation.

Ancient Wisdom And Quantum Physicists Make Unlikely Bedfellows: In Quantum Mechanics The Observer Determines (or Even Brings Into Being) What Is Observed, And So, Too, For The Tiwis, Who Dissolve The Distinction Between Themselves And The Cosmos. In Quantum Physics, Subatomic Particles Influence Each Other From A Distance, And This Tallies With The Aboriginal View, In Which People, Animals, Rocks, And Trees All Weave Together In The Same Interwoven Fabric.

A Religion Made Up Solely Of Heightened Religious Experiences Would Not Be A Religion At All. ...the Major Religious Traditions Address The Mysteries (with Or Without Entheogens), But They Have Other Business To Do: Widen Understanding, Give Meaning, Provide Solace, Promote Loving-kindness, And Connect Human Being To Human Being.

Science Can Prove Nothing About God, Because God Lies Outside Its Province.