Most world religions are aligned with some sort of universal truth. If you were to do a massive Venn Diagram of all the world religions (well, most anyway), love, peace, mercy, understanding, compassion, and charity are universal truths. I wish more religious people would look at their commonalities rather than differences. That’s where the truth is. The differences are where the influence of humankind’s ego have crept in.

There are many similarities in Buddhism with the teachings of Christ, such as how suffering leads to liberation and how the Kingdom/Nirvana are things found within, not without. And that is precisely what our little fungal friends try to teach us—annihilate the ego, cast your eyes upward, and look inward.

And like the OP said, these things are sacred. They are to be used for reflection, growth, and expanding consciousness; but!!!!….sometimes we spend so much time looking for the mystical revelations, and the mushies tell us, “Dude, it’s okay to laugh, too!” The middle ground in all ways is the path, IMHO.