My religion isn’t really based on belief, just practice. And I do the practices because they make me feel better and more connected.

Either smart men from all over are running the same scam — or there are common bits of wisdom in most religions and there may be something to that.

Or C: There was an original scam that not so original humans copied over and over through the years.

made me feel I visited some sort of lnternet life coach with some mystical stuff on top.

There’s another kind that probably prefers a local language, and would feel very much like a Christian priest. It fills the same basic social roles in some places.

Kind of like how there’s actual shamans, and then the kind that tells white people what they want to hear before feeding them mushrooms. The West never stopped loving a wise noble savage.