What If Psychoactive Drugs Explained Religion?

I have recently come to a theory that some may find absurd, but I think could explain a lot for discovering truth about ourselves and help progress society.

I have been researching the brain, and more specifically the effects of psychoactive drugs on the brain. One reason psychoactive drugs have an effect on us is because psychoactive chemicals/drugs simply synthesize neurotransmitters that our brains already have in them. Psychoactive drugs like LSD, Peyote, Psilocybin, and Cannibis intensify neurotransmitters to neurorecepters in the right temporal lobe of the brain. It's the temporal lobe of the brain we use to be able to identify the 'self' as well as our 5 senses. Intense signals sent to the temporal lobe cause a change in consciousness because consciousness is created by the electrical pulse sent from transmitters to recepters in the brain, and so by changing the amount of pulses sent from transmitters to recepters changes ones consciousness. That is a pretty radical thought that our consciousness is changed by taking chemicals that in the case of dopamine or seratoin are already made and found in the body.

Here's where it gets fun:

76% of people given LSD or Peyote for scientific testing identify feeling the presence of someone or something else next to them. The presence is always described based on culture. When LSD or Peyote is given to Native Americans they claim to see/feel spirits and other animistic mystical beings. When given to Roman Catholics, catholics claim they see, talk to, or feel the Virgin Mary. When given to Protestants they claim to feel the presence of God. What's interesting is LSD and Peyote only intensify signals to neurorecpters that already exist in the brain, so one could have a mystical or religious experience without drugs and believe that they are feeling the presence of God or some other mystical force. By giving people psychoactive it intensifys the receptors that identify the 'self' and thus greatly increase in identifying a 'self' that is not us, but we feel such as feeling the presence of God. The reason for that is, when our consciousness is changed by chemicals in our brains it alters our state of mind and state of being, so our senses become much more sensitve and colors seem more vivid and music seems to come alive, and that allows applies to the sense of 'self' and we expand our feeling of self and as scientists say "kill the ego" and most people believe they feel another presence besides their own.

If you tell religious people that you can emulate a religious experience through psychoactive drugs, and your religious experiences were caused by a change of chemicals in your brain and not by some supernatural power what would people do? Governments make psychoactive drugs illegal because they can positively shed new light on old world beliefs and would us progressively improve society. LSD explains the reason why religion exists. The belief in God is a feeling of another presence that a lot, but not all people get from time to time because of nature chemical changes in their brains, and drugs only amplify those changes and cause what people call religious experiences to be sees and felt as real by those who takes the drugs. People will naturally get experiences feeling more than oneself and depending on your culture will explain how you identify it. So if religious people feel another presence they explain it as being God or whatever spiritual entity they choose because religion is part of their culture, and they don't understand what is actually going on in the brain.

When I've taken LSD I definitely felt a presence existed in close proximity to me that was not my self. I definitely feel that what I felt is what religious people would call the presence of God, but I know it wasn't God it was just a change of my consciousness. I actually think that feeling of another self that people get is connecting to the collective sub-conscious that exists all around us, but we can't normally tap into because our brains can't focus intensely enough on those electro-magnetic forces that surround us that is the collective sub-conscious.

Some more interesting facts about LSD:

Some studies in the 1950s that used LSD to treat alcoholism professed a 50% success rate, five times higher than estimates near 10% for Alcoholics Annonymous

Albert Hoffman who first synthesized LSD did studys showing that the drug helped reduce migraine headaches, could be used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder due to LSD's stimulation of the 5-HT2A recepters in the brain, and when given to schizophrenics it had positive effects of stabalizing a person diagnosed with schizophrenia because of the drug's ability to facilitate relief of various emotional episodes.

I believe LSD and most psychoactive are illegal because the government does not want people to be altering their state of mind and purposely changing their conscious because it makes manipulation and control of the masses much harder. In fact most governments use drugs as a way to control their populations by regulating drugs, hence the war on drugs and why 50% of people in prison are in prison for violentless crimes. In the 1980's the World Health Organization thought about putting valium in public water supplies with the idea that it would decrease violence, luckily it didn't happen, but an interesting fact about LSD is the government gave LSD to unknowing participants to see what would happen and it's from those experiments that came the idea that LSD can cause you to go insane, which is non-sense. LSD has no more of a permanent effect on the brain than that of caffeine, but people are told opposite and it's the continued manipulation of the American people by the U.S. government.

Ever notice that drugs that are bad for you are legal (alcohol, nicotine, prescription drugs) but drugs that don't potentially harm you at all and can help open minds and hearts to new possibilites and new beginnings are illegal (LSD, Peyote, Psilocybin, Jimsonweed, DMT) and not only illegal but seen as very dangerous.