28 ms·
Your dismissal of 12-steps system purely due to it being faith-based, is unscientific. Psilocybin (a religious experience inducing substance) appears to be a ve
by janto 5y ago
Your dismissal of 12-steps system purely due to it being faith-based, is unscientific. Psilocybin (a religious experience inducing substance) appears to be a very promising treatment.
- danaris 5y ago"This drug induces hallucinations. Some people interpret those hallucinations to be religious in nature. Therefore, this drug is faith-based." That's not a very strong chain of logic. The 12-step system is, at least based on my very limited understanding, founded with assumptions that the people using it will be either Christian or theistic and raised in a culturally Christian society, and thus have a similar notion of "faith in a higher power". That's what "faith-based" means.
- janto 5y agoPsilocybin has a distinct spiritual phenomenology that not all hallucinogens have. While there is a difference between a faith and a spiritual experience, they both work within a religious framing of life, which might be helping the individual with addictive behavior here.