Good Friday

It was a very Good Friday
At Harvard for a select few
Where psychology met theology
Over a new psychedelic brew

They made a strange congregation
A most unlikely Trinity
Scientists hosting religion
To investigate Divinity

Indeed, a very psilly idea
Brilliant at the same time
Under the banner of academia
Was hatched the perfect crime

Is this the newest Testament?
A heaven-sent experiment
Oh, can we scan the mystic?
Make the numinous self-evident
By the light of sight fantastic
Test the edge of reverence
Against a mind-bending experience
With the full blessing of the State
They ate the apple in innocence
The miracle isn’t that they saw God
It’s that they got away with it

Come ye faithful seekers
This little pill will be your guide
We’ll study under Knowledge Tree
And check out the view inside

Meet you at Marsh Chapel
We’ll see how deep it goes
Toss the golden apple
Between the wooden rows

The serpent bids you bite
Just a slice of forbidden fruit
Sample some shamanic sight
Before you don your preacher’s suit

Is this the newest Testament?
A heaven-sent experiment
Oh, can we scan the mystic?
Make the numinous self-evident
By the light of sight fantastic
Test the edge of reverence
Against a mind-bending experience
With the full blessing of the State
They ate the apple in innocence
The miracle isn’t that they saw God
It’s that they got away with it

After we’ve been wined and dined
Let us pray in Science’s name
We’ll learn what kind of faith we find
Taking communion of a different kind

Did the bush burn before your eyes
That crazy little thing called god
Can it ever be quantified
Sized up and demystified?

So pray tell, did it feel more real?
Any visions you’d care to reveal?
Did the medicine enhance your zeal?
Or did doubt find your mind unsealed?

Is this the newest Testament?
A heaven-sent experiment
Oh, can we scan the mystic?
Make the numinous self-evident
By the light of sight fantastic
Test the edge of reverence
Against a mind-bending experience
With the full blessing of the State
They ate the apple in innocence
The miracle isn’t that they saw God
It’s that they got away with it