Religions, organized

What I m suggesting is that the appearance of the small mystical societies in ancient times that ultimately evolved into more familiar organized religions was assisted by the near universal presence of hallucinogenic plants that were able to alter how the brain functioned and to facilitate each culture s communication with their gods and goddesses. If true, then it should also come as no surprise that in recorded history, humans... 

Some aspects of organized religion appear to resemble state-specific sciences. There are techniques that allow that believer to enter a d-ASC and then have religious experiences in that d-ASC that are proof of his religious belief. People who have had such experiences usually describe them as ineffable, not fully comprehensible in an ordinary d-SoC. Conversions at revival meetings are the most common examples of religious experiences occurring in d-ASCs induced by an intensely emotional atmosphere. 

Butthat s notthe religious I m talking about. Organic seems to fire up the apocalyptic in us—religion in the future tense. Americans love to see things in these terms. It s been a pretty common reaction ever since the Puritans first looked into the misty colonial woods of America s seventeenth century and saw flying devils. 

The question of the executive and judicial means by which the people can be guaranteed to be kept comprehensively and truthfully informed is bound to be a difficult one in view of the fundamental freedoms of press and speech. It would be necessary to require, for example, that the media be subject to democratic control in that the formation of political or economic monopolies would be prevented. One proposal would be to allow access to the media in their area of operations to political parties proportional to the vote they received or to socially-concerned organizations (such as religions) proportional to their membership, without a limiting minimum percent. 

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