We all have a toll-free red phone with direct access to Consciousness, "God," Reality, the Unknown, but just that the phone's battery is drained and dead owing to lack of use. For this battery recharges itself whenever the phone is used.
That phone is your pineal gland.

Religion was created to teach men the use of this phone, but men being creatures with fear of the Unknown, shirk the responsibility to learn, instead opted for others to learn the use and make the calls on their behalf.

And thus sets in motion the calcification of their pineal gland; and the seed of deception, fabrication, misinformation about spiritual realities was sown and with time it became a mighty forest, and the pineal gland became all but a forgotten, unused and demonised organ.

In some religious culture, the active pineal gland is symbolized by the lotus flower in full bloom, which fragrance and beauty is perceived and admired. In others, it is symbolized by the all seeing eye or the eye of Horus, that sees the invisible and/or the impossible.

The pineal gland in its active mode produces DMT, its energy source, "the Spirit molecule," that is also found in certain plants and animals, ingestion of which recharges the battery and facilitates a call to be made on the red phone.

What is not understood is despised, but what is, is embraced.