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One of the things that bothers me about casual critics of religion is that they don’t take the phenomena seriously, and it’s a serious phenomena. I mean, not least because people have the capacity for religious experience, and no one knows why that is. And I mean, you can induce it reliably in all sorts of different ways. You can do it with brain stimulation. You can certainly do it with drugs. There’s especially the psychedelic variety. They produce intimations of the divine extraordinarily regularly. And many people have been using drugs like that for, God only knows how long, 50,000 years, maybe more than that, to produce some sort of intimate union with the divine. It’s like, we don’t understand any of that when we discovered the psychedelics in the late 60s. It shocked everybody so badly that they were instantly made illegal and abandoned in terms of research for like 50 years. And it’s no wonder, because who the hell expected that? Nobody.