This only works of course, if back-echos of future states can turn M0 off as well as instantiating it in the first place. They get an understanding of how the universe really works, and an understanding of M0 abnormal psychology. Religion Design 101 M0 afflicted people have two problems. The best bits of their brains aren't working, but are still there and can get fired off occasionally, giving them bizarre experiences. Also, they insist on logically inverting absolutely everything in their mentation.
Religions are big on symbolism.
This triggers their sleeping higher cognitive abilities, and gives them a most peculiar buzz. This trick provides a transport mechanism or vector, which carries the payload component of the religion along with it. There are several big religions going around. It is the mixing of the payload concepts of all of them that actually have the desired effect planned by the A Team of co-operating religion designers, distributed through space and time. It's something we don't think about, but it was quite alien to the Roman and Hebrew legal systems that it appeared within.