Forget “Jesus Juice”. Did you know you can get drunk off of pure, uncut, all-natural/organic Christ?
People who get really entranced by music, whether on a substance influencing their chemistry or not, really freak me out. This goes double for religiously entranced people listening to words talking about their religion. These things give me the creeps because they are humans checking out from the dimension we share and existing somewhere in their mind openly for a few moments. It’s like they’re sleepwalking because they’re physically inhabiting our public space but their mind is completely somewhere else.
Music doesn’t send radiation into the human receiver and manipulate anyones chemistry to put them in this alternate reality state and neither does religion. What both offer is a platform for the human mind, self aware and multi-layered as it is, to launch into a train of thought and emotion combined with a focus that tunes out other senses making you more isolated from the stimuli of your environment.
Our minds are able to tap into the physical control panels in our brains and dial the faucets that produce the chemicals responsible for joy, elation, sadness/depression, arousal, happiness, serenity and so on. When someone is being impacted by the profundity of a musical beat, lyric or speech from an impassioned pastor, they are giving themselves a low-level but mind altering drug in some form.Could be in dopamine or Gamma-Aminobutryic Acid (GABA) or testosterone or something else depending on the setting, but they are getting a brain bath of some chemical for sure and its a different mixture for each individual.
There are some fringe churches in the frozen American Northern mid-west who offer “God highs”. The God-drug-addicts claim to experience physical highs from God in this process. Mostly they go through the motions of drinking something or inhaling from something and experience positive effects. Most people probably think they’re just fooling themselves, but don’t realize that fooling oneself has physical biochemical effects, as I described above. So that leaves the freakiest conclusion of this matter, which is that this is very easily a real thing.
They don’t explain the process of what is happening to them in the way I did, and I don’t know if they make any actual claims that anything other than what I described is happening (I don’t know if they are claiming that God literally enters your body through magic if you pretend to inhale him) but they mime the use of an imaginary pill, blunt or pipe and get themselves high through their imaginations.
It’s bananas, for sure. They even do group sessions where they all do imaginary drugs and get drunk on “Godka”. This is not a joke.
For more info, check out the micro documentary below…
Take-away quote: “But really how weird is it compared to any other religious experience?”