jayrhacker

That's what Mountain Dew was created for!

Visions and hallucination are not uncommon in meditation practice. In Zen training we're reminded that the mind generates thoughts and visions like the eyes generate sight, the ears sound and so on… The instruction in that context is not to cling to the vision so that you can return to object-less meditation.

If you are interested in how some of the older meditation traditions view different meditative states, search for Jhana or Dhyana, sentient beings have been doing this for a long time and there is a lot of helpful guidance out there to support your practice.

"Protest Convoy" or "Anti-Immigrant Caravan"

”Make sure you spell my name right"

Oh, she pretty much has to stay out of the sun, bet her SPF cream is as thick as Trump's tanner.

Honestly, people being able to get tested known doses of various drugs of choice would save a lot of lives and create a lot of opportunity to intervene and help people recover. Making drugs illegal just causes miser and funds crime.

You mean after the Supremes decided Bush vs. Gore for us back in 2000?

Which is weird, given that it's totally not a racist country… /s

The placebo effect is strong, so strong it can confound a double blind study. Having someone who actually listens to your medical complaint and provides sympathy can have a positive influence on recovery. Neither is "real medicine" but for a lot of people it's supportive of the natural healing process (people usually to get better over time without intervention) and if it's harmless that's fine.

The problems start when people replace real medicine with alternative care and particularly for illnesses that don't get better on their own, like cancer or vaccine preventable illness.

Picking a public fight with the spooks is just not smart.