On this episode of the Ancient Futurist Podcast, I dive in with my good friend, fellow Louisiana swamp native, and former Christian pastor Mike Tharpe to discuss his journey of deconstructing Christianity and paving a new path for himself towards his personal spiritual and intellectual freedom.

Mike has an extremely interesting and meandering journey through Louisiana upbringing, attending bible school, becoming a pastor, excommunicating himself from the Christian church, then discovering plant medicines and recognizing them as true sacraments.

This conversation dives deep into the constructs of organized religion, belief systems, allegory vs. history, the spectrum of beliefs within the same doctrine, shame and guilt, true intellectual freedom, the purported consequence of eternal damnation, and much more.

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