Jiang says charismatic leaders with visions could attract followers, become celebrity-like religious figures, and eventually be worshiped after death, creating settlement around the temple.
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Visions
Jiang says charismatic leaders with visions could attract followers, become celebrity-like religious figures, and eventually be worshiped after death, creating settlement around the temple.
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Jiang explains religious visions as experiences believers take as real, possibly produced by psychedelics, hunger, or meditation shifting perception.
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"To find husbands and wives to reproduce. And so, this sort of religious center, it's a great time to come and practice your religion,..."
"And then, when they died, what happened was they still worshiped them in their death. And so, this place became a temple, okay? Does..."
"So, who these charismatic leaders are, are people who have visions or dreams of God or the spirit world, okay? And then, they present..."
"...future, we will look at someone like Muhammad who had religious visions in a cave. And you're like, did he really see an angel?..."
"...different way. When you do that, you're able to have different visions, okay? But we also know that if you go hungry for a..."
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