Quite a turn off indeed. How narrowminded to only
allow Christians to participate; How discriminative.
How naive and how far from enlightenment.
More and more a desire in me grows to start a new religious movement.
Not because I am such a fan of religion, but because I am a fanatic persuer
of human rights & freedom. I can understand why you would somewhat play a
religious game, but this really puts me off.
It's the same reason why I'll never completely feel at home in the Santo Daime community,
even if I had an amazing Ayahuasca experience with them; To join them requires the acceptation
of a rigid, scriptural doctrine & that always rubs me the wrong way. I prefer freedom to form
my own little, more flexible doctrine & I think everyone deserves the freedom to their own
doctrines.
However to form a Religion & be legally recognised as such a group of people will have to document
some of their shared ideals & beliefs. Temple of the True Inner light folks appear to be stuck on
the bible & even only the christian interpretation of it. I think it's fine to extract bits & pieces
of wisdom from old doctrines like the bible, but to copy it whole & live a slave to a disempowering,
freewill-oppressing control system. Wisdom in holy scriptures is rare, but Ignorance & madness are
alot more common in "holy scriptures"
I would prefer to join or found a "Religion" with much more sober principles.
Something like this perhaps:
Our Religious(read"Common"
)
Principles/Beliefs:Quote:
1-Psychedelics, natural & synthetic, are tools for Psycho-therapy & receiving divine/higher
insight, guidance & inspiration. Therefor they are our Sacrament. There for their plant
sources should be legal to possess & cultivate for our Members. Also their extraction or
synthesis, or other form of preparation of Psychedelics and their ingestion for personal
use at home or communal use in our Temples should be exempt of legal persecution for
Members of our Church.
2-Membership requires people to see & use Psychedelics only as described in the 1st. Principle.
Also it requires them to have no severe Psychological disturbances(Schizophrenia, Psychotic disorders,
extreme Bi-Polar disorders) & to not partake in drug abuse(Abusive, Harmfull use of Psychedelics or
Alcohol, Cocaine, Amphetamine or Opiate addiction) or other abusive, destructive activities.
As long as people keep true to these principles/beliefs, people of all Religious & Cultural
backgrounds are welcome to become Members of our Church.
3-The purpose of our congregation is to have collective sessions of self-therapy & artistic expression,
aided/catalysed by the use of Psychedelic plants and Compounds, as well as studying & practicing
Psychology, Biology, Organic Chemistry, Foodcrop & Animal farming and (Ethno)Botany. Through these
activities we seek to persue/maintain Happyness(Good Mental & Health) & Freedom.
That sounds like the kind of Religion I would found.