: Sounds like they used a flicker device, a complex way to get high(sort of).
: Many psychotropic users feel to have spiritual expeinces. I've met many
: former christens, who have felt jaded by their religion, get in touch with
: that lost spirituality. Perhapse this can be given to guilt of wishing to
: reunite with such feelings.
Welcome to the wonderful world of wireheading :)
I believe that once everyone has VR-style implants, this may become vaguely common.
: Then again there are studies showing that hospitialized people who are prayed
: for recover better and faster. Whether they are of the beliefe or not.
: These were blind studies also, hospitialized indivsuals did not have to
: know about the prayers to benifit. Don't ask me to pull this up, I read a
: it a few years back when my history prof. gave me the artical.
: Like wise are the paranormal hunters who find all sorts of stuff that neither
: scince nor religion will choose to define.
This I did, surprisingly, know about, but didn't think of. Even assuming the study is entirely unbiased (I've read some extremely suspect ones that claim this sort of thing can happen across the globe to people they've never met, using nothing more than a photo of them, and digital ones work too :rolleyes:), well, maybe one day we'll know what really happened. I really hate the new-age spiritual bullshit, though.
Most paranormal hunters (and such) are probably simply schizophrenics who will alter the course of events to make it appear something happened... but there are other cases, occasionally... the fact that 99% of them are false alarms is offputting, though...
(Like with government conspiracies. There *ARE* some regarding Tesla, 9/11, and a handful of other things... bah, one day...)
