Posted: Oct 04, 2018 6:57 pm
Keep It Real wrote:Kafei, do you acknowledge the experimental studies into psilocybin were littered with demand characteristics promoting theistic reports, or not?
I believe you're referring to the survey data, not the questionnaires. However, I'd point out these are largely unbidden spiritual experiences, not even the atheists expected to encounter God in this experience. In fact, the atheists had to say stuff like, "We have no words in our language for this experience, and so ended up having to use religious vocabulary such as "timelessly bathed in 'God's' love." And this is precisely what is expressed as the love that was in Jesus Christ as Agapé or the flowing of the Tao in Taoism, and it can be discerned at the very core of all the major religions, because the very descriptions found in the scripture itself derive from the "complete" mystical experience.
Atheists, by the way, whom after a "complete" mystical experience no longer identified with atheism.