Here's one way to respond to the decline in church membership in the US...
"Two new ‘churches’ show Santa Cruz may be leading the next wave of psychedelics"
https://lookout.co/two-new-churches-show-santa-cruz-may-be-l…
As we move into 2026, I want to be clear about where I stand. I support classic psychedelics like psilocybin, psilocin, Mescaline, LSD, and also cannabis, not because I think everyone should use them, but because I believe in the freedom of consciousness.
This isn’t a war on drugs; it’s a war on consciousness itself. The stigma surrounding psychedelics has been built and reinforced by decades of fear-based media and institutional control. Simply talking about these substances bout to s…
Professor Obvious theorizes that the difference is related to how the substances interact with areas of the brain
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/13/psychedelics-ocd-treatment-psilocybin
10 Ways Psychedelics Can Change Your Perspective Forever! | Tools for the Void 6 -100
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How psychedelic drugs affect the brain https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/ns02132601.html "High-resolution brain imaging reveals that psychedelics suppress external visual processing and instead drive visual areas to access the retrosplenial cortex, [...], thereby generating hallucinati…
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Legalize LSD, shrooms, and other classic psychedelics. This was never a war on drugs, it’s always been a war on consciousness IMO.
For half a century, psychedelics largely belonged to the cultural left: anti-war, anti-capitalist, suspicious of the church and state. Now, one of the most politically consequential psychedelic drugs in the US – ibogaine – is being championed by evangelical Christians, Republican governors, military veterans, and big tech billionaires.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/26/us-right-champions-psychedelic-drugs?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other