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if everything mentioned before wasn't absurd enough, a person is told
that sex is forbidden unless someone is married and then it's all right
if it's with the spouse, but it's a sin to use contraceptives, to get
involved with an abortion, to watch pornography and that it's pretty much
a sin to say or do anything without getting permission or approval in
advance. All of this is religion? This country is not going to find out
what religion is until it finds out what LSD is. The Western "religions"
are based on that tiny fraction of one percent of the brain, meaning a
tiny fraction of one percent of what religion really is. A person is put into an impossible situation. The person can be "good", suffer through their whole life and maybe, if God is nice, he will let them go to heaven or they can sometimes enjoy themselves, which is a "sin" that will surely send them to hell. This is what Alan Watts called a double-bind situation, meaning that both choices are horrible and the person can't win no matter what choice they make. They are stuck and maybe paralyzed in not being able to pick from the two terrible options and act. The person has no one to turn to because everyone says that this is God's will, that this is life and that this is the way it is. Well, that's not God's will, that's not life and that's not the way it is. A person can't get out of the double-bind until they realize that this game of two negative choices is all nonsense, a con, a fraud. There is religious indoctrination as well as social indoctrination and both are brainwashing propaganda. The Western "religions" are pretty much saying that feeling good is a sin or something that's not natural or proper. As a result, in psychology, everything seems geared to the negative. If someone feels good, it's said that they are in a "euphoric state" as if there is something wrong, bad or unnatural about it. Timothy Leary goes into this in his book, Changing My Mind Among Others. It says on page 194: "Academic psychology is concerned with conditioning humans to accept what Freud called 'the reality principle', implying that only the artificial, conditioned games of the current social order are real; that natural pleasure is somehow a hallucination, even a psychotic outburst. "The entire range of pleasurable experiences has gone unstudied, unlabeled, undefined. You will not find the word 'fun' in the index of most psychology texts. Indeed, until the psychedelic movement of the last decade, unconditioned behavior and unconditioned experience were considered ipso facto schizophrenic." Leary had more on this in his book, High Priest. This is from page 63: "To interpret the visionary experience laymen use the language of ecstasy and psychiatrists use the language which is familiar and natural to them, the dialog of diagnosis. Now the curious thing about psychiatric language is that it's almost completely negative, a pompous, gloomy lexicon of troubles, symptoms, abnormalities, eccentricities." Leary described the mentality that he faced at Harvard on page 153 of his book, Flashbacks: "Most of our colleagues in the psychology department still couldn't take our brain-change work seriously. They couldn't admit that our new subject matter even existed. Moreover, the professional language we had in common lacked concepts for the types of data that our experiments were producing. Altered states of consciousness simply didn't exist as a category in the psychology of that time. It was the familiar tunnel vision that has always narrowed the academic mind." |