Spirituality and religion

Do you need religion to be spiritual? Religion is dogma -- a belief system caused by the human refusal to accept death. Spirituality is an experience -- exercising that part of the mind that can feel one-ness with the universe and a profound love of life and the cosmos. Back in the sixties, I had a spiritual experience on LSD; we're wired for it, all right. 'At Laurentian University, Todd Murphy and Michael Persinger are developing devices they think can stimulate parts of the brain to enhance spiritual experiences. Others see the possibility for drugs designed to boost spirituality. Newberg says this would be underpinning a practice that has existed for hundreds of years with scientific understanding. "If you talk to a shamen who takes a substance so they can enter into the spirit world, they don't think that diminishes the experience in any way," he says.' More here.