Control of the masses on a dark planet: religion
If we were conscious of our entire being, religion would not work on us. It would be non-applicable – couldn’t apply – at all. IMO, religion is a set of rules imposed upon a person and a culture to limit the exploration of who they really are. To confine the person, blind the person by hard headed denial to only one limited proscribed reality by rules, guilt, confusion, fear and punishment. At least the forms of religion that are with us today. I have no doubt, that religion started out as a set of precepts that allowed development of ideas [-MORE-]