Bron B, Ruttenberg B A
Confin Psychiatr. 1975;18(2):61-72.
In the whole history of mankind, hallucinogenic drugs have played a big part in religious and cult practices and have transmitted special religious experiences during a drug-induced ecstasy. The present extension of drug consumption with a view to solving personal conflicts and transitory experience of happiness, as well as the unsuccessful 'quest for God' of many young drug consumers should be understood in the context of the specific drug effects, of the technological developments of our times, as well as of the change and breakdown of religious and cult traditions. This desperate quest for happiness and religious experience calls for a critical reflection about the present sociocultural developments and raises the question of the necessity of an authentic religious life.
在人类的整个历史中，致幻药物在宗教和邪教仪式中扮演了重要角色，并在药物引发的狂喜中传递特殊的宗教体验。当前为解决个人冲突和短暂的幸福体验而扩大药物消费的现象，以及许多年轻吸毒者“寻找上帝”的失败尝试，应结合特定的药物效果、我们这个时代的技术发展以及宗教和邪教传统的变化与瓦解来理解。这种对幸福和宗教体验的绝望追求需要对当前的社会文化发展进行批判性反思，并引发了关于真实宗教生活必要性的问题。
