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Mushrooms Responsible for Religion?
I have a theory that I would like to discuss with the members of this forum. My theory is that psilocybin mushrooms are responsible for the creation of religion. Imagine the following circumstance: The year is 500000 BC, you're a very early stage of man, and are wandering around one day trying to find food. You stumble upon some soft objects growing out of the grounds. They have a long and skinny body, with a cap on the top. You take a bite of it, and it doesn't taste to bad; adequate enough for food. You procede to ingest a few mroe of these new-found objects, and continue on your way. About an hour later, you are overwhelmed with a feeling you have never felt before. You can't describe it, you just have a very weird feeling about yourself. You feel scared, happy, nervous, and can't keep your mind still. Everything you look at appears to be brighter, some objects appear to be waving and breathing, even inanimate objects. You have no idea what is happening, and spend the next 6 hours in this weird world. When the entire experience is over, you cannot explain what just happened, but are sure that nothing on this land could make you feel that way. It has to be something more powerful than this place, more powerful than you and everybody around you. Hence the first notion of an all-powerful being is thought up by man. What's you're opinion on this? Possible?
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