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psilocybin ↔ religion

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Psilocybin's interpersonal and prosocial effects mediated the expansion of social bonding mechanisms, explicitly including religion [1] [2].

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Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution frontiersin.org Frontiers 2 facts
claimThe interpersonal and prosocial effects of psilocybin likely mediated the expansion of social bonding mechanisms, including laughter, singing, dancing, storytelling, and religion.
claimThe interpersonal and prosocial effects of psilocybin may have mediated the expansion of social bonding mechanisms such as laughter, music, storytelling, and religion, thereby favoring selection for prosociality in the human lineage.