I think it depends on the religion, and what you classify as religion.  Certainly religion where direct experience of the divine is not allowed is not a religion for me.  Like modern christianity, go to a catholic church a just watch how hollow all the rituals are and imagine if the sacrament was replaced with say dmt.  Now that would be a religion I could get behind.  A religion that helps you have direct experience of the divine and acknowledges that their way of interpreting it is but one possible way, is one that I would be part of.

I think people do need religion to some extent, everybody worships something.  I think religion is hardwired into who we are.  Whether you are a chemist and worship the soma, or a musician and worship the divine vibrations, I believe we all practice religion in some way and the degree that you are spiritual is the degree to which you recognize the divinity in the things you worship.

In a way the nexus could be seen as a religious community.

Just because orthodox religion has soured our views doesn't mean religion is necessarily a negative thing, people get too uptight when it comes to religion, I believe.