Michael Adams
According to many people today, Christians have been overlooking the greatest tool in God’s toolbelt to reveal himself, and reality, to us. It isn’t prayer, study, or contemplation. Nor is it the saints or the sacraments. It would appear to many that psychedelics are capable of revealing much more than any of these. Whether they are pills created in a lab, natural chemicals found in plants, or even the little mushrooms flourishing under cow pies, it appears we have a lot to thank these drugs for when it comes to our human development.
As Christians, we may know this narrative to be false, but it does not mean that we should not be aware of it. We should be paying particularly close attention to these conversations in the present moment as fascination with and use of these substances continues to rise. Over the last fifty years, these drugs have begun to stack up accolades. It was not until recently, however, that these drugs began to find such overwhelming mainstream popularity in our culture. From Joe Rogan to Jordan Peterson, many have begun to speculate about the role psychedelics have played, not only in human development, but in religion as well.
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