
Bernard von NotHaus (of Ron Paul Dollar fame) founds new church!
Submitted by xntryk1 on Tue, 10/07/2008 - 18:02
FREE MARIJUANA CHURCH OF HONOLULU
Retirement to 'Blow Your Mind'
HONOLULU, HAWAII - Retiree wants you to 'blow your mind' at his new church - that literally goes up in holy smoke.
Bernard von NotHaus, who recently retired, explains that now is the time to get high and talk to God. So he founded the Free Marijuana Church that uses a 'chemical' to practice his religious belief. He even has a name for it: Chemicalology.
Von NotHaus offers high-grade marijuana to Church members so they get high and tune into their higher consciousness just has he has. What a heady idea indeed!
Von NotHaus is certainly not your usual dope dealer. In fact, he does not sell marijuana at the Free Marijuana Church. He gives it away - for free! Church members simply step into the "high room" for one toke of sacramental marijuana then retire to the Meditation Room and close their eyes in serene bliss.
Those who have tried the Free Marijuana Church praise the concept of simply getting "high" and tuning in to the God within their own minds. But is this new 'Church of Higher Consciousness' legal?
Von NotHaus is adamant his church is legal - quoting the First Amendment and pointing to court decisions regarding the Native America Church that uses peyote as its sacrament. Plus he says that the church is financially well prepared to defend its use of marijuana as a religious sacrament.
It does seem like the time has come for a new spirituality. Recently, the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore conducted a double blind study to evaluate the psychological effects of a psilocybin - used for centuries for religious purposes. Of the 36 volunteers, 67% rated the psilocybin experience as being among the five most spiritually significant experiences of their lives; 64% indicated that the experience increased well-being or life satisfaction and 58% had a 'complete' mystical experience.
The idea of using drugs to induce a spiritual or mystical experience is certainly not new or "far out." Well informed researchers point out that history is full of mystics and visionaries who have used all kinds of drugs, yoga, meditation, fasting, self-flagellation and other methods to take themselves beyond the mundane daily consciousness.
Von NotHaus confesses to using marijuana for over 40 years and has kept a Journal of his sacramental usage every Sunday for the past 12 years. He sounds like a modern day Martin Luther who is well prepared to challenge the current religious landscape.
But von NotHaus credits his mentor Dr. Timothy Leary, the legendary High Priest of LSD, with blazing the chemical trail to God.
Not doubt about it. The Free Marijuana Church is truly a 'mind blowing' religious concept. And it will probably blow a lot of minds as his church is in Hawaii - home of Maui Wowie.
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www.FreeMarijuanaChurch.org
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Most certainly not legal...
It is my understanding that in order to be exempt from existing laws for the practice of your religion, your religious tenets had to be in effect prior to the law being passed.
When I was younger, I briefly entertained becoming a mail order minister for a group called the "The Church Of The Tree Of Life" which had managed to document and place into their religious text all chemicals that were currently legal but which were expected to become illegal.
I am not sure how much of what I read was crap, and how much was correct. But I am pretty confident in what they had to say about that aspect.
I would be willing to bet money he will be spending a little more time in jail.
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I would attend
But I would want to ask him why he slammed RP before taking part in any sacrament.
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This is not slipping off this page
This is SO great-what awesome ramifications this could have. What if we all started chapters of his church in our hometowns? It's a basic right to practice a religious sacrament.
Man this guy is a hero.
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Must not be too many religious people here at DP...
:-)
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please
explain..
Not too many comments on this thread...
...(just being facetious :-)).
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"Let them protest all they want, as long as they pay their taxes.” ...credited to Al Haig, Ronald Reagan's Secretary of State.
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Ron Paul = Red Pill
It is a great idea...
I may shock a few people, but I get the most out of reading my Bible, when I am "in tune" and my head is on straight.
Bernard is the F'n Man
He is just so damn brave. That guy should be on a coin.
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