Any bad link is worth reporting. I would rather fix them all if I could find them (I tried some apps to automate finding them but their false positive rates were insufferable and productivity-killing so I gave up on that).

Thanks, and no problem! I figured the article was older….I’d only report “bad” links if they’ve been changed to lead to malicious sites. I’ll check out secular rescue, thanks!

Note you are commenting on an article over a decade old. It’s not uncommon for links to go dead or change in that span of time. But it’s very welcome to bring that to my attention so I can fix it! So thank you.

In this case, Foundation Beyond Belief got nuked by COVID and no longer exists (a common outcome of the pandemic). So I changed the link to Secular Rescue.

Not in any way that wouldn’t be fallacious. See for example my old article on a similar question about meditation.

I haven’t tried psychedelics, but do you think they could change a persons mind about the existence of God or the nature of the Universe in a more realistic fashion? Can Feeling like a Creator loves you help heal psychosis and depression? If believing in a loving creator is psychosis what is the proof? Is the proof that bad things seem to happen in the world?

That’s a pretty crappy study. Terrible error margins and effect sizes, janky methods. I wouldn’t trust its results to be very reliable.

Indeed, and notice all the stock mistakes they make: a small effect becomes “all atheists” and “all religious believers” respectively; and this false generalization comes from a wholly unremarkable pattern: atheists are slightly less likely to be awed by videotapes…and then merely not being awed by a video on a screen becomes “not being awed by being actually at the Grand Canyon.” Ridiculous. The only useful result they got is that people more easily awed have a slight tendency to be more easily duped into religious belief. But this neither entails that atheists don’t experience awe nor that experiencing awe causes religious belief.