The study, published in the January edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry, says spiritual but not religious people, as opposed to people who are religious, agnostic or atheist, were more likely to develop a "mental disorder," "be dependent on drugs" and "have abnormal eating attitudes," like bulimia and anorexia.
"People who have spiritual beliefs outside of the context of any organized religion are more likely to suffer from these maladies," said Michael King, a professor at University College London and the head researcher on the project.
Thirty percent of respondents who identified as spiritual said they had used drugs, a number that was nearly twice as much as the 16% of religious respondents who said they had used drugs, according to the study. Among the spiritual respondents, 5% said they were dependent on drugs, while 2% of religious respondents identified as dependent.
Comment: This is just more evidence that people are being forced to conform to specific profiles or else be branded mentally disabled, or to go just a little further, a terrorist. Don't stray too far outside the box or else you'll be labelled mentally sick. The fact is that people have been running away from organized religions for decades and forming their own individual opinions on spirituality, and who can blame them with the evidence of pedophilia and corruption within organized religion. Evidently the powers that be are afraid of people abandoning this form of control. So now we have this "official study" by "experts" who claim that such thinking is evidence of mental disorder. Thought control in action.