[harmonygirl]

Wow, so much to comment on! I agree that the Bible and likely all other religious texts are part fact, part fiction. What we choose to believe is fact is entirely up to us. Your interpretation of "go forth and multiply" for example. I also have to comment that the high from acid is VERY different from the high from mushrooms which is different from opium, etc. Not all hallucinogenics produce the same effect or would induce the sort of miraculous states you seem to ascribe to them.

I think that your urging to cast off the limitations of the physical realm is ultimately bound to fail. We exist physically. We are animal to some extent. If we try to ignore this, we deny an essential part of being. I also note that you consistently refer to god as him, when the original hebrew pronoun, is, in fact, gender neutral.

I do, however, agree with you that it makes no sense that whatever being(s) created this world (if this actually did happen) would not conceivably limit themselves to a human form. I disagree that the way to god (or spirit or whatever) is external. Earth as Gaia makes sense to me. Exploration (and maybe colonization) of otherworlds doesn't, at least until we have successfully navigated existence on this one. I don't consider that we have, yet.