Reply #7: The Pharmacratic Inquisition [View All]

[plaguepuppy]

Jonathon Ott has a lot of interesting things to say about the reasons for organized religion's deep and viscous hostility to religions like voudou. His basic thesis is that religion began as an immediate, ecstatic experience that involved the use of psychoactive plants as sacraments, and that modern organized religions have in effect substituted a placebo sacrament, allowing true spirituality to be replaced with a top-down system of rules and allowing a bureaucratic priesthood to mediate the divine for the unwashed masses.

http://www.mimbres.com/holp/holpath/pi_ott.htm