Where religion is a few thousand years ahead of science

Study of brains on frankinsence shows that they stimulate ion channels related to the alleviation of depression and anxiety. While an athiest in mind, I still practice many religious habits and beliefs for the benefits they confer to my health and intelligence. It makes for interesting conversation among die-hard athiests who despise (and rightly so) the mass murder and folly committed by organized religion and its adherents.

Still, there is technology in these cultural constructs that is worth preserving. With this specific example of frankincense's effects on the brain, I'd be curious how the other perfumes that societies such as the Golden Dawn and Ordo Templi Orientis (especially Aleister Crowley in Liber 777, Column XLII) had corresponded to psychological states about a century ago. Crowley listed olibanum on the sixth sephira, which appears similar to frankincense.

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