MDMD drugs and nature religion

[Otto]

I loved the term _Psychoactive Sacramentals_ in the seventies, but I prefer
to see it the other way round today: religion is opium for the people, and I
don't take opiates, cocaine, hallucinogens or attend religious services,
discotheques or other drug-related parties anymore.

If drugs are a way to heaven, and I don't doubt that the subjective
impression of this being "true" may be really authentic in some cases, they
can lead to hell too, and we all know this *is, has been and will be*
definitely true in many individual cases.

Otto

Take good care of what the priests say
'After death it's so much fun'
(Talk Talk: Happiness is Easy, 1986)
http://users.cybercity.dk/~bcc11425/
http://www.itap.de/homes/otto/music/05_12_862.htm

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 12:51 AM
Subject: MDMD drugs and nature religion
from: Fuller, Robert C. (2000) Stairways to Heaven:
Drugs in American Religious History. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Given the use TRP makes of various substances in M&D, I thought some of you
might be interested in this post from the MAPS list today.  I believe
TRoberts is Tom Roberts, editor of a recent book called _Psychoactive
Sacramentals_, which I recommend to anybody who is interested in the
subject of entheogens.
-Doug

Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:08:33 EST
Subject: MAPS: Americas' "nature religion"