"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern."
After careful study, scholars have concluded that the earliest religions were little more than collections of rituals and stories intended to explain phenomena that primitive man was incapable of understanding, to add a false veneer of “meaning” to what must have been difficult lives, and to help tribal leaders legitimize their authority and control their constituents and punish malcontents
