... experiences often arise. Following abnormal activation or stimulation, some individuals report that they have communicated with spirits or received profound knowledge from the spiritual world (Joseph 113). Additionally, common methods of attaining states of religious and spiritual awareness such as "isolation, food and water deprivation, increased or decreased sexual activity, pain, drug use, self-mutilation, ... fellow Christians (Joseph 118-121). Similar rage and murderous reactions were characteristic of many aggressive, jealous, conquering, angry, and belligerent patriarchal gods th...

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