Carol service in prod church review.

[Ash]

Drugs do things to your brain that alter your perceptions. But that is not a spiritual issue, it’s a chemical one. If you choose to believe what you experience when you’re fúcked up is ‘truer’ than what you experience when you’re not, you’re no different to a religious adherent who thinks they’ve achieved religious ecstasy. It’s all the same thing.

Not just perceptions, but ideas. Those ideas can remain after the psychedelic state has subsided.

As to your last point, I read somewhere a claim from a Christian that the altered brain patterns observed when stimulated by maijuana were similar to those observed when 'stimulated' (atheistic scare quotes) by prayer.