How many of you are religious?

Did your use of LSD impact how you viewed your religion, or religion in general?

 

Yeah it changed mine. I used to be a Muslim but now I just believe that god isn't really one person, god is a being so spiritually advanced it just turned into energy and it exploded or something and made the universe hence the big bang. But there are different dimensions of the universes so when we die, our life flashing before our eyes is god just surveying what we've done to see if we're ready to advance. If we are not, we start over as ourselves or someone else maybe. Also I think that like, a fraction of god is in each of us and that's what determines our personality, as we go through the reincarnations that grows as we do. What could be better than life besides another one? So life is heaven maybe. Just one in a different place, maybe not even a different dimension but just a cooler place in the universe. I don't think that if you get reincarnated you'd be on the same planet because then you'd probably just speak to yourself or something. Actually shit maybe you would because like, I've met people who have the same personalities in different continents so maybe the same energies connect anywhere in the world? Shit haha. Also, if god is a person then it'd probably be a woman. Women give birth so they're creators, men are angels or whatever if they exist because angels are the guardians of god. Anywho, yeah, that's muh shit.

Edit: Actually I take back the only one dimension thing, I think there are an infinite number because whenever I take LSD I get these like, different waves of things happening and everything changes, locations of people, colours, everything. So I think maybe LSD and DMT and most hallucinogens are gateways to seeing all the dimensions? Does that make sense or does it seem like I'm just talking shit?

 

I'm not religious at all.

 

It has made me realize that there are other elements to this world that we do not understand and may never be able to. These elements I attribute to greater forces. I no longer believe in a formal religion per say (Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, etc), but I do believe that there is a universal commonality that connects all people, animals, plants, and things, a stream of consciousness so to speak. It's strength lies in the conjoined spirit of us all and although it is beyond our control we can actualize and become a part of it, possibly even after death.

 

what a great thread. after i first dropped, i saw right through religion, viewed church/god and such as fake. However, LSD did give me hope that their is some higher "being" out there like Doobie mentioned.

 

i talked to aliens who were in my head and they told me they were god.. it was creepy

 

Tripping cemented my religious views, as non-existing. I percieve life and all its small intricacies as beautiful and profound but I dont need the hindrance of religion to try and validate something that only needs to be awed and admired, not understood.

 

Used to be an athiest.

After a particular trip, I began studying religion instead of just saying it was the opiate of the masses. Logic and reason have led me to being a deist now. I believe there is a God, and that we will be held accountable for our actions in this life. I doubt that God is the Abrahamic God, but we shall see on the other side.

 

LSD eliminated religion from my life, and replaced it with spirituality. I understood how uterly insaine and ridiciculous religion is in the world. I also found it shocking (and somewhat disturbing). I wondered how I had never been able to see the insanity before that point, it's so obvious. I was also dissipointed to relize that the majority of the world thinks that what they believe is unquestionable truth. I understood for the first time that when people say "believe" they really mean "think".

LSD helped replace my religious "faith" with the understanding that I can't, and won't know shit until I pass over, and that while I may not follow the religion that some people do, I can still learn from various faiths and enhance my life.

(this is a strange example, but it was part of my revelation, so I'll say it)
in the south park movie, we are shown thousands of people grouped in hell, they've just died. A demon comes out and says something to the effect of "hello everyone, for any of you that are confused, you ARE dead, and you ARE in hell"
to which a man responds,
"wait, I shouldn't be here! I was a devout catholic all my life! I should be in heaven!"

the demon responds, "oh... Sorry, you picked the wrong faith"
everyone starts freaking out and yelling "which one was right?!?"
the demon says, "MORMON, IM AFRAID MORMON WAS THE CORRECT ANSWER."

to which everyone groans.

This oviously is insaine, that the real creator would leave your eternal fate up to whether you had a lucky guess. Because when it comes down to it, all we do is guess, we don't know shit. We must live according to what we believe (think) is right, and see where it goes from there. God cannot be held in a book, and I think what we'll find on the other side is beond anything we could imagine.

 

I didn't know before and I don't know now.

 

Lucy helped me realize religion is a tool that is used to control society, but nowadays we no longer need religion and should discard it, but i have this theory that if you could somehow convince your mind to believe whatever you want then religion could greatly benefit you.
Oh ya, and im not christian anymore =D

 

^a tool used to control society? controlled by who, and dont say the governement. lol.

....But I just dont understand why so much attention is focused on religion personally. It dividedes humanity, causes war and hatrid. Although i may be focusing on the negatives, I dont see how much positive can come from trying to predict something that you cant determine a definite answer about.

 

I AM spiritual.

Not religious.

 

I understand religion to be the quality of someones being, the ability to see the connection between you and everything else, that you are not separate from life, but apart of life. I see godliness in everything, spirit in everything, divinity is radiating from everywhere.

Church, Temples, Bibles, Priest, Popes, Monks, Gospels, Choirs, Sunday School, ludacris branches of branches of branches further drawing lines in the mind complex, instead of recognizing are oneness. Organized religions in the wrong hands are utterly evil, these organizations are the devil himself.

I believe are religions started pure though, what Jesus said was real, what Buddha said was real, what Krishna said was real, but what they said made sense for their time period, they said only what they needed to say. Life progresses, new information comes up the deeper we dive into the rabbit hole, old paradigms must die.

The power must be put back into the natural self and its divine connection with god, not with scripture reading and intellectual arguments, we must see it in our meditations and experience it through the natural unfolding of life.

 

Ummm, I'm Scientologist. I've been rapping as well and I've taken my skill for rhyming and am using it to spread the word.

Scientology is the best religion on earth!
L. Ron didn't know what he really was worth!
He was a genius destined for great things from birth,
and that's why I will always follows his words.
Christians and all jews,
Do what L. Ron do,
Hubbard is bomb news,
Let's all be like Tom Cruise!
Xanadu gonna get, down tonight,
in a tropical volcano, party is tight,
Souls escapin,
music playin,
feeling is right,
gonna attatch our beings to pre-humans, Alright!



lul'z I'm not religious in any specific manner. Although i do feel a certain spiritual flow in the Universe, it feels beyond me to identify in any sort of explanation.

Edit: Acid only ever made me feel more connected to the universe.

 

They forced some sort of spiritual change on me. I consider myself religious, i pray whenever i hear sirens because of a teacher i had way back in 7th grade other than that i just love hearing them philosophical veiws of the world and how its changed since the beggining of time.

Thats a beautiful thing.

 

I also have a huge belief about this life and the connection to past lives, etc...... LOL

 

LSD helped to reveal the absurdity of organized religion for me, and to feel for the millions who perished in the name of one religion or another. And yes religion is a tool used to control populations, been going on for thousands of years.

 

LSD didn't have much of an effect but I agree. Maybe I gained more of an understanding of other peoples' perspectives. There may be some higher power or intelligence, but it doesn't seem to care what I or anyone thinks about it all that much. People are free to believe what they want and learn their own truths though.

 

I am very religious in a disciplinary sense.
I religiously give thanks for many things in my life whenever I encounter them. Before every meal I try and remember to be thankful for what I have, to be thankful for whatever died so that I might live and to remember my very small place in this world; if I cannot, then I don't eat and go hungry until the next meal.
It's a practice for me.
Religion to me is about personally practicing a set of virtues and disciplining the mind. If you have no system for doing so, if you just go through life allowing every single thought and whim you may have to be transformed into hedonistic action, then you may as well walk around on all fours. In my opinion, humanity is in a position of responsibility, to that of the world and to that of itself. When the word "religion" is uttered, most people instantly think of belief, God, churches, organization, rules they don't understand, narratives, stories, ancient books, things like that. To me it's just about following a set of guidelines in the hopes of realizing a higher truth about oneself and the world. Most people do not rule their minds, they are ruled by them, and I believe it isn't because of the existence of religion, it is because of the lack of it.