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From Armchair Theology to Experimental Science: Entheogenic Keys to the Doors of Experimentation
Author(s) -
ROBERTS THOMAS B.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
anthropology of consciousness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1556-3537
pISSN - 1053-4202
DOI - 10.1525/ac.2005.16.1.51
Subject(s) - doors , variety (cybernetics) , mysticism , sociology , religious orientation , epistemology , religious studies , comparative theology , theology , philosophy , computer science , operating system , artificial intelligence
Today's theology, which in the United States is primarily Judeo‐Christian, includes a variety of beliefs, rituals, social and moral imperatives that we commonly associate with our religious orientation. These organizational expressions of theology constitute a variety of descriptive characterizations of how we associate our self with religion. Nevertheless, in an increasingly technological culture based on empirical science, how do we reconcile this worldview with our theology? Some historians of religion claim that the roots of our organizational expressions of theology emanate from a common source of primary religious experience. In this essay, I argue that it is possible to engage in an experimental mysticism, which I refer to as “entheogenic keys to the doors of experimentation.”