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With regards to Buddhism I do not believe that is necessarily true. I am no expert but I believe it depends on the particular school of Buddhism.

"The Human person"? Is there any other kind?

I don't think that the Hopkins study has gone on long enough to say this. It may (probably will) turn out to be the case that it would be best if it were an annual rite analogous to the Easter Eucharist or to use a biochemical analogy you might need and annual booster shot. Again, I'm not sure...

As I have mentioned previously in another thread I am currently in the process of designing a new religion (Transparency/Nirmaladtha) that incorporates the use of psilocybe as sacrament. As of yet I have not specified a ritual context or method for taking psilocybe but I imagine that it might...

The study done at Johns Hopkins was done using subjects who already had spiritual or religious beliefs. I too took psilocybe mushrooms when I was young without experiencing anything particularly profoundly religious. It was however very insightful, life affirming and a great bonding experience...

Out of curiosity how many of the people responding to this thread have ever experienced psilocybe mushrooms? I have.

I think the best approach might be a combination of fasting and the use of psychedelics such as psilocybin. The problem with prolonged fasting is that it tends to reward those within the group that cheat and do not fast. Over the course of days there is no way to monitor who is cheating and who...

Not really. Married men take on mistresses because they have an instinct to beget more offspring.

In my previous post I neglected to consider all the non-benign religions and/or religions with unscrupulous people at their helm that are out there. With this in mind my previous comments regarding free experimentation with new religions appear to be rash. While I still believe that it is...

I don't know. Isn't that why God created clothes? Clothes are after all pretty universally human. Even in the hottest most humid environments among the most primitive tribes no one walks around with their wong hanging out. In all likelihood we have been wearing clothing as long as we have been...

For those who are not familiar neurotheology is a word used to describe the study of the chemical and biological basis of religious experience. The word was originally coined by Aldous Huxley in in the 1950's but as recent as last year articles have been written on the subject in publications...

Well then perhaps you shouldn't. However others in this forum have expressed the opinion that people should stick with "their" religion or they should necessarily follow the religion of their parents. They offer no rationale for this and seem merely motivated to capitalize more effectively from...

I don't mean this to cap on your religion but a few years ago someone told me that the Jehovah's Witness was a religion for child molesters. Of course I thought that sounded crazy but years later when a Jehovah's Witness came knocking on my door he had a young child with him. It seemed peculiar...

I'm not saying put a toe into a new religion I am saying explore a new one deeply. To have no breadth and to just delve ever more deeply into one's own could very well lead to the entrenchments that divide us as human beings and lead us into unnecessary conflict.

In the interest of fairness I should point out that most western religions espouse that it is not enough to be a good person and do good works but that one must also worship God. Further they often have clauses that make their religion exclusive of other religions. It seems that most of the...

So that's your honest answer? Wow. I'm not going to get into all the outrageous assumptions that you made and the realities that you ignored in coming to that ridiculously inflated number but suffice to say that you are many orders of magnitude off base. Organizations like the UN, the World...

That is an interesting scenario that you laid out. Please do tell.

Again it seems that you are calling Jesus, Muhammad, the Buddha, etc. "delusional". You might be right about that. That's not only less cynical but it is more in line with the spirit of this thread which is after all: I like that idea. I should have added holy days/holidays to the list of...

Just thought that I would point out that since Nirmaladtha is now in the public domain in theory anyone who wants to can step up and author its book.

I guess the colors of my religion Transparency/Nirmaladtha are blue, green and purple.