Dudes, Science cannot comment on what it cannot measure. Real people have real mystical experiences that, due to their nature, are subjective and untestable. "Dow picked a defining trait of religion: the desire to proclaim religious information to others, such as a belief in the afterlife. He assumed that this trait was genetic." I think that, for most people ("the followers") the desire to proclaim is more an ego thing and religion, esp. for monotheists, becomes Us vs. Them. Shit, Constantine was a Mithraite who "converted" to Christianity to maintain political control. Ego is formed when universal awareness becomes localized in …
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