The Drug Cult (jun 1, 1958 – jan 1, 0)

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The number of people who used drugs and marijuana from 1960 to 1970 went from a few hundred thousand to 8,000,000. And the people who started using marijuana more were usually between the ages of 12-year-old school kids and college seniors. The use of marijuana, hashish, and even the psychologically and genetically dangerous. LSD was indeed an expression of their new religion of love and freedom of which drugs were a sacrament. Though the idea may be strange to most modern worshippers, drugs have played an important role in the history of religions. The ceremonial use of wine and incense in contemporary rituals is probably a relic of a time when the psychological effects of these substances were designed to bring the worshipper into closer touch with supernatural forces. Modern studies of hallucinogenic drugs have indicated that such drugs, in certain persons under certain conditions, release or bring about what those persons claim to be profound mystical and transcendental experiences, involving an immediate, subjective experience of ultimate reality, or the divine, resulting from the stirring of deeply buried unconscious and largely nonrational reactions. Modern students of pharmacological cults who have participated in cultic drug ceremonies and used the drugs themselves have been astonished at the depth of such experiences. R. Gordon Wasson has suggested that the religious impulse itself may have had its origin in the amazement felt by primitives on accidentally finding and ingesting plants with hallucinogenic properties while foraging for food. This view is not held by most scholars of religion.

The 1960s 1970 Winds of Change page 84
Drug cult | Definition, Types, History, & Facts | Britannica

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