Early Christian groups practiced rituals involving psychedelics, such as the use of a purple substance in the Eucharist to induce visions.

“we have two corroborating sources about this saying that this guy Marcus the the successor of valentinus MH was performing Eucharist with burning purple in it it says purple it doesn't say burning but it says he was adding purple to the drink which put two and two together purple psychedelics”

William Cecil believed that England had a divine calling to cast off the authority of the Pope and establish a Protestant state.

“he believed to the core of his being that Elizabeth's kingdom was called by God to cast off the shackles of papist bondage.”

Prophets were religious figures who induced and experienced visions through the use of drugs.

“the only thing that a prophet designates is somebody who sees Visions via drugs and prophets were people who were bombed on drugs and Antiquity not just bomb but you know like integrated into their whole”

She views the institutionalization of religious beliefs, such as early Christianity, as a process that suppresses diverse voices and experiential knowledge.

“so you're going to expect to find that that's what I'm looking at and I look at that in the the second book so I was like okay we're institutionalizing this belief now about extraterrestrials what are the voices that are being not heard or drowned out and why is there so much misinformation so it's ”

The Roman Catholic Church adopted the administrative structure and vocabulary of the late Roman Empire.

“If you look at a lot of like early Catholic Church words, they're actually words that Diocletian you started using when he reorganized the empire. So like for example the word diocese that the church uses.”

He explains that the historical myth about Jews having horns originated from a misinterpretation of a Bible passage describing Moses as having horns of light.

“the reason that Jews are said to have horns is because in the Bible it says that when Moses returned from Mount Sinai his face was glowing with horns of light that's what it says in the Bible and so people read that and they were like oh Jews have horns”

The tradition that the Apostle Thomas traveled to India is a widely accepted historical claim within Christian tradition, even if the specific apocryphal accounts of his life are not considered canoni

“I think in like you know yeah in Christian tradition or Traditions generally that that has been accepted right you know um in terms of like you know a historical Faith standpoint right that Thomas is the one that went East”

He believes that historically, religion has been a major justification for mass violence.

“More people have been killed in the name of God than for any other reason.”