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[3777.86 --> 3779.86] whether that's done by the right crystals
[3779.86 --> 3782.86] or the right star charts or the right rituals,
[3782.86 --> 3787.86] or not new but making its way back into the mainstream,
[3787.86 --> 3792.86] is this process of micro dosing on LSD or mushrooms
[3792.86 --> 3794.86] or other hallucinogenic drugs
[3794.86 --> 3797.86] so that you can explore this new spiritual plane.
[3799.86 --> 3802.86] Someone actually sent me an article this past week
[3802.86 --> 3804.86] from Los Angeles Magazine.
[3804.86 --> 3805.86] Right?
[3805.86 --> 3806.86] That's about exactly this.
[3806.86 --> 3808.86] And it's a fascinating read.
[3808.86 --> 3813.86] In that article, one of the proponents, one of the evangelists, I'll say,
[3813.86 --> 3816.86] of this new spirituality says the following.
[3816.86 --> 3817.86] He says this,
[3818.86 --> 3824.86] Our religious and spiritual institutions have become hollowed out shells.
[3824.86 --> 3826.86] They're bereft in a way,
[3826.86 --> 3828.86] and a lot of people want something more than that,
[3828.86 --> 3831.86] an affirmation to their intuition,
[3831.86 --> 3832.86] which is a beautiful line in itself,
[3832.86 --> 3834.86] but an affirmation to their intuition
[3834.86 --> 3838.86] that there's something beyond ordinary day-to-day life.
[3838.86 --> 3840.86] There's a disillusionment,
[3840.86 --> 3842.86] and people are looking beyond religion
[3842.86 --> 3845.86] because it's not giving them what they need.
[3845.86 --> 3849.86] And so he talks about how hallucinogenic drugs become that.
[3849.86 --> 3852.86] Now let me be really clear on this, okay?
[3852.86 --> 3853.86] Because some of you hear that,
[3853.86 --> 3854.86] and you're tempted to think,
[3854.86 --> 3856.86] oh, that's just a Vancouver Island hippie.
[3857.86 --> 3858.86] Right?
[3858.86 --> 3861.86] That's just an L.A. Instagram influencer.
[3861.86 --> 3865.86] The person who I just quoted is a board member
[3865.86 --> 3867.86] and the director of ethnopharmacology
[3867.86 --> 3869.86] at the Hefter Research Institute.
[3869.86 --> 3873.86] He is a PhD in botanical sciences from UBC.
[3873.86 --> 3875.86] He's had post-doctorate research fellowships
[3875.86 --> 3877.86] at the Laboratory in Clinical Pharmacology
[3877.86 --> 3879.86] at the National Institute of Mental Health
[3879.86 --> 3880.86] and the Department of Neurology
[3880.86 --> 3883.86] at Stanford University School of Medicine.
[3883.86 --> 3885.86] He's no crazy hippie.
[3885.86 --> 3889.86] In the world today, people say,
[3889.86 --> 3891.86] I don't believe in God,
[3891.86 --> 3895.86] and then they go to Toys R Us and buy a Ouija board.
[3895.86 --> 3897.86] Is Toys R Us still a thing?
[3897.86 --> 3899.86] Did I just date myself, maybe?
[3900.86 --> 3901.86] Tonight, right?
[3901.86 --> 3904.86] Maybe you're joining the thousands of kids
[3904.86 --> 3906.86] who are gonna go trick-or-treating,
[3906.86 --> 3908.86] and at the same time,
[3908.86 --> 3910.86] there are households holding seances
[3910.86 --> 3913.86] because the veil between the physical and spiritual world
[3913.86 --> 3915.86] is believed to be extra thin.
[3915.86 --> 3920.86] There's a new generation of Wiccans and naturalists
[3920.86 --> 3922.86] that are gonna be doing rituals in the forests.
[3922.86 --> 3925.86] This is just our new normal.
[3925.86 --> 3928.86] And let me be really clear,
[3928.86 --> 3931.86] because there's a pull in the other direction as well.
[3931.86 --> 3932.86] Right?
[3932.86 --> 3934.86] So there's this cultural trend towards this new spirituality
[3934.86 --> 3936.86] and a progressive ideology,
[3936.86 --> 3940.86] and there is the counter-trend of the alt-right
[3940.86 --> 3942.86] and of social conservatives.
[3942.86 --> 3945.86] So on the one hand, we're told to join in the new
[3945.86 --> 3947.86] or get left behind to history.
[3947.86 --> 3948.86] On the other hand,
[3948.86 --> 3950.86] reject the agenda of the elitist left
[3950.86 --> 3952.86] or get trapped into a neo-Marxism.
[3953.86 --> 3955.86] Christians are caught up in this too.
[3955.86 --> 3956.86] Right?
[3956.86 --> 3957.86] You have progressive Christianity
[3957.86 --> 3959.86] that has adopted the values of tolerance
[3959.86 --> 3960.86] and felt identity,
[3960.86 --> 3962.86] and you have conservative Christianity
[3962.86 --> 3964.86] that has been co-opted by a religious nationalism
[3964.86 --> 3966.86] and even white supremacy.
[3966.86 --> 3967.86] Right?
[3967.86 --> 3968.86] Make no mistake about it.
[3968.86 --> 3971.86] Just like the Christians to whom Peter is writing,
[3971.86 --> 3974.86] our culture is telling you to choose
[3974.86 --> 3976.86] the new way or the old way.
[3976.86 --> 3979.86] And Peter tells us the exact same thing
[3979.86 --> 3981.86] he told those Christians then.
[3981.86 --> 3984.86] You are called to a third way.
[3984.86 --> 3987.86] You may live in Canada,
[3987.86 --> 3989.86] but you're not Canadian.
[3989.86 --> 3990.86] Not first.
[3990.86 --> 3991.86] Not even second.
[3991.86 --> 3996.86] You are beloved of God.
[3996.86 --> 4001.86] And so love what he loves.
[4001.86 --> 4003.86] You are beloved of God,
[4003.86 --> 4006.86] and so love the way that he loves.
[4006.86 --> 4011.86] In a world that does not recognize Jesus,
[4011.86 --> 4020.86] what you do and how you live must also be unrecognizable.
[4020.86 --> 4022.86] It's going to be weird.
[4022.86 --> 4025.86] It's going to be unique,
[4025.86 --> 4032.86] but it's also going to be the only way those people will ever see Jesus.
[4032.86 --> 4038.86] That's the uniqueness that Peter is calling us to,
[4038.86 --> 4039.86] and that's the uniqueness,
[4039.86 --> 4044.86] this uniqueness of life that Peter is outlining in this text.