What people here who demand Catholics leave their church don't understand.

[Dragonfli]

106. I believe I read that, but it was a couple or more decades ago and

I thought it was titled "The psychology of consciousness", in any event I need to re-read it.
I have always been fascinated with the nature of consciousness itself. Perception, it's limits, how much of what we perceive is actually just what is left after most is filtered out, or even filled in by our minds from nothing.

I believe I was sidetracked by trying to understand altered consciousness, particularly what one can perceive when the filters are partially, or almost completely bypassed. Then I got into Leary and McKenna and of course, you can imagine the experiments I involved myself in. I will say this, without the filters I can see where madness or enlightenment might lie, and they may even be the exact same thing.

You are right about religious meddling and forced proselytization, that can be dangerous to a society, it can even be murderous as history clearly shows us, I have a tendency to treat the adherents with kid gloves and look suspiciously at the leadership, but that is a bit naive on my part, as often the neophytes can be more dangerous than the leadership, your point is well made.

Edited to add, I have not read that title, "The psychology of consciousness" is a different book, same author, as I found out by following your link, I now look forward to re-reading the former and reading for the first time the latter!