Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "Psychedelics in Ancient Greece and Christianity | Brian C. Muraresku" video.

  1. What a difference one word can make. Just imagine, if the term “near death experiences,” had been “near death hallucinations,” what a difference it would have made to those reading the words. And just imagine, concerning the subject of psychedelics, if rather than “mind manifesting,” … the term had been “mind hallucinating” … what a difference it would make to those reading the words. From the book … How to Change Your Mind. What the New Science of Psychedelics teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addictions, Depression, and Transcendence. Author, Michael Pollan. Published 2018 ... Despite the 1960 trappings, the term “psychedelic,” coined in 1956, is etymologically accurate. Drawn from the Greek, it means simply “mind manifesting,” which is precisely what these extraordinary molecules hold the power to do.
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  2. Devotees of religion refer to consciousness as being a soul that flies away either to be rewarded with eternal bliss, or to suffer harsh judgment from a god for eternity, or to reincarnate back and forth between earth and other dimensions, until all the nasty karmic debts are paid in full … presumably to the supposed god. I suggest it’s as possible that humans will be conscious after death, as it will be possible that alligators, or bears, or snakes, or mosquitoes will be conscious after death, and that if as a species, we had evolved with paws or hooves, neither science nor religion would exist.
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