Imagine a religion that combined psychotherapy, cryptocurrencies and anarchism. I would like to build a new religion for our age. Perhaps you would like to help?

Religions are temporary bridging technologies that allow primitive cultures to advance towards more intelligent cultures. However, most of our current religions are from eras we have already advanced from. As a result, many of us view religion as absurd and archaic. Religion has lost its purpose because it no longer addresses us in the present.

In other words, in terms of religious sophistication, we're still using the typewriter in the age of the microcomputer. But, before we look at what a modern religion might consist of, here's some radical definitions.

What is a religion really?

Religions, in their effective form, use myth and storytelling to re-liga (from the Latin 're-connect') people to their environment, their bodies, and each other. However, problems arise when the 'high priests' of these temporary bridging technologies mistake them for permanent explanations of the universe and impose ideologies on a population well after their expiry date. Problems also arise when peoples' desire for connection is manipulated to profit the 'high priests'.

Almost all religions today represent temporary bridging technologies which have not been updated for centuries. As a consequence, many intelligent individuals now view religions as synonymous with dogma, abuse and corruption.

What is the problem with religion today?

Many major religions are hubs of child-abuse and self-enrichment, religion itself is a concept that repels and horrifies many rational thinkers. Our most popular religions have failed to elevate the societies they aim to help beyond a certain point: Hinduism, for example. has failed to dismantle the caste system; Buddhism had little effect in dispelling feudal hierarchy. Catholicism could not push society beyond selfish-materialism and itself became a bank; Christianity could not prevent war, nor could Islam. They, rather embarrassingly, became each other's shadow aspects.

It feels like it is time for us to wake up from the trance of old religions.

What would religion look like if we were the gods?

Although past religions have stalled in the face of the electronic age, all of these religious technologies did lead to our current state of being, the platform from which we can now ask: What would religion look like if we designed it consciously?

Religion itself is a word that simply means 'to reconnect' and so, when used intelligently, religion is a process of re-connection, and should not be an object of obsession or subservience. I would like to begin by proposing a series of suggestions that a new religion might establish as its doctrine. I have designed these rules specifically to accelerate the evolution of humanity to the next stage of awareness.

The new ten commandments

1. Refuse to hold power over any other human.
2. Refuse to allow power to be held over you.
3. Do not harm or allow to be harmed, physically or sexually, any child. They are you in the future.
4. Do not hold money in any currency system or bank that has centralised control.
5. Anyone who wishes to hold power, authority, or political office, shall be disqualified from holding such positions. Instead, they will be helped to face their desire for power, which comes from feeling powerlessness, and heal from it.
6. No person or organization shall have authority over another person's exploration of their own brain and central nervous system.
7. Every month, those in a position of significant influence in society must take 120 micrograms of LSD in a calm, safe, supported setting and reflect on their actions in the previous month. This is to ensure that those who serve society remain in close contact with their inner-selves and the planet.
8. Quiet, sheltered, candlelit spaces must be made available every mile in all urban centres, to permit calm reflection and inner silence.
9. Anyone who claims to be a priest or guru of this religion should be helped to face their subconscious feelings of powerlessness (see rule 5.)
10. You must dismantle this religion and all its iconography and authority in ten years and create a new one.

These are just my first ideas. Let me know if you have suggestions.

Our religion will also need iconography (public relations material), some emotive music, and perhaps some kind of wearable symbols to indicate community. These will all become unnecessary later, but they are vital bridging technologies to assist people in transitioning between expired religions and the new.

Interested to hear your thoughts.