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Evil is of course a religious term,
Do you mean that it originated from religion?
Quote Originally Posted by Darkmatters View Post
and religion is about mind control - thought policing.
It can be, for some.
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Religions seem opposed to anything that promises the individual freedom and power, and they want to be able to frighten people into thinking their way because when people open up their minds and develop knowledge of their own inner nature they stop believing religious claims. Add to that the fact that to uneducated people Lucid sounds a lot like Lurid, and also that many people (not just religious) are afraid of psychology and the subconscious mind (Freud made it out to be pretty messed up!) and I think it's pretty clear why a majority of people (those who aren't well educated or liberal in their beliefs in particular, in other words most people) get pretty freaked out when people want to talk about dreams in an open and honest way.
An interesting hypothesis, and one that warrants considerable thought.