About Zide Door

Zide Door is a Church in Oakland supporting the safe access and use of Entheogenic Plants. We follow a nondenominational, interfaith religion, The Church of Ambrosia

The Theory of Religious Evolution

Our story begins a very long time ago when we were all omnivorous monkeys roaming the plains of Africa. One thing a hunter uses to find pray is their droppings. What grows out of their droppings in Africa happens to be Magic Mushrooms. Now, if you are a hungry monkey and you find these tasty looking mushrooms, what would you do? Probably try one. When you eat a small amount of Magic Mushrooms, you notice a few things, mainly enhanced vision and hearing. You now see every leaf that moves, every plant you might want to eat, and hear every sound an animal could make. This would be a significant advantage to any hunter. When you eat large amounts of these mushrooms, you see some amazing things that can only be described as spiritual visions. As a monkey who has just seen god, you would be compelled to try to explain what you saw to another monkey.

Simply put, the “Religious Evolution” theory says that Magic Mushrooms were the reason for the evolution of both abstract human communication and the concept of religion itself. Monkeys trying to explain god to each other.

This is the foundation of our Church

How does Cannabis fit in?

The religious use of cannabis has to do with the use of ones inner eye. A complaint from a person who does not like cannabis explains it best, “every time I smoke, it’s as if there’s a giant inner eye that turns on me and shows me everything that is wrong with my life.” That may be the best way to understand the advanced entheogenic use of cannabis. Once someone learns to focus their inner eye, cannabis allows them to use it to understand life, the world and the teachings from the spirits that communicate through mushrooms and other entheogens.

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