Swallow Your Pride And Admit That We

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.

I Am Profoundly Moved And Persuaded By The Near-death Experience.

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.

The Crisis That The World Finds Itself In As It Swings On The Hinge Of A New Millennium Is Located In Something Deeper Than Particular Ways Of Organizing Political Systems And Economies.

Imagine A Man Besottedly In Love: He Won't Waste Time Speculating Whether Other Women Equally Merit His Affection.