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Thirty years ago the term psychobabble was coined to describe the use of jargon from psychiatry and psychotherapy to convey a sense of weightiness and illumination to what was otherwise less than informative. Terms and phrases like "evolutionary psychology" and "evolutionary neurotheology" "cyber religion" and "entheogens" and "archetypes" likewsise might seem to lend a patina (very thin) of apparent intellectualism or substance to the silly exercise of making up a religion based on an action-fantasy movie, and/or the dreamings of Aldous Huxley, but it is still silly. At the end of the day, "entheogens" just means psychoactive drugs like peyote or marijuana, and "matrixism" seems to amount to getting high and playing video games. Just to be clear about "entheogens" from a Biblical perspective, from the deaths of Nadab and Abihu (Leviticus 10:8-9) to the writings of Paul (Ephesians 5:18), God has forbidden the use of intoxicants in worship or sacred rights or holy service. God is not found through "entheogens", and whatever "spirituality" may lie down that path is not connected to Him. Being intoxicated and being full of the Spirit of God are polar opposites.
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