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“Atheism had disappointed, but it's alternatives appealed even less. (p.51,52)”
― The Thing That Would Make Everything Okay Forever: Transcendence, Psychedelics, and Jesus Christ
― The Thing That Would Make Everything Okay Forever: Transcendence, Psychedelics, and Jesus Christ
“Psychedelics, at best, could never do more than airlift me to the tenuous and swaying peak of the tower of Babel, an unsound piecemeal stack of children's blocks, of man's spurious attempts reach heaven. Jesus and Jesus alone can lead us into the true
kingdom, the one that never perishes, the one that satisfies and gives us more than we could have ever asked or imagined, the one where our tearful, anxious questions, like mine on that final mushroom trip --'Does anything mean anything at all?' — are answered conclusively, and abundantly, and in greater affirmative measure than we could have ever hoped. (p. 261)”
― The Thing That Would Make Everything Okay Forever: Transcendence, Psychedelics, and Jesus Christ
kingdom, the one that never perishes, the one that satisfies and gives us more than we could have ever asked or imagined, the one where our tearful, anxious questions, like mine on that final mushroom trip --'Does anything mean anything at all?' — are answered conclusively, and abundantly, and in greater affirmative measure than we could have ever hoped. (p. 261)”
― The Thing That Would Make Everything Okay Forever: Transcendence, Psychedelics, and Jesus Christ
“But beneath it all loitered that gnawing doubt that Hitchens had inadvertently sewn within me: that tenacious desire for something beyond materialism, a desire that was sometimes nothing more than a whisper and sometimes a gripping, consuming yen that had eclipsed all else and compelled one to seek all manner of earthly pleasures in futilely trying to satiate it. Could this be the last thing, The Thing That Would Make Everything Okay Forever, as I'd later write?”
― The Thing That Would Make Everything Okay Forever: Transcendence, Psychedelics, and Jesus Christ
― The Thing That Would Make Everything Okay Forever: Transcendence, Psychedelics, and Jesus Christ
“The last time I ever tripped, I ate mushrooms I'd grown myself.”
― The Thing That Would Make Everything Okay Forever: Transcendence, Psychedelics, and Jesus Christ
― The Thing That Would Make Everything Okay Forever: Transcendence, Psychedelics, and Jesus Christ
“When we pray the Lord's Prayer, observed Luther, we ask God to give us this day our daily bread. And He does give us our daily bread. He does it by means of the farmer who planted and harvested the grain, the baker who made the flour into bread, the person who prepared our meal. We might today add the truck drivers who hauled the produce, the factory workers in the food processing plant, the warehouse men, the wholesale distributors, the stock boys, the lady at the checkout counter. Also playing their part are the bankers, futures investors, advertisers, lawyers, agricultural scientists, mechanical engineers, and every other player in the nation's economic system. All of these were instrumental in enabling you to eat your morning bagel.”
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