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Those facts, as you put it, really mean nothing other than maybe someone should do a study and see if there's any real correlation. How many other people had cancer, used plenty of cannabis, then died or continued to have cancer?

There's billions of people in the world. That means the frequency of "Bad thing, Weird thing, Good thing" will often be nonzero for all sorts of things.




You should listen what people have to say when they describe it as a "Love Bomb", as "Seeing God", etc -- sometimes a little less quantifying can go very far in resolving problems physical or otherwise; the trick is experience and an open mind. The testimonials describing these substances as powerful healing tools is endless -- there is validity in this fact.


No, there isn't. There is validity in the fact that the substances make people think that they are healing tools.

Until or unless there is actually a quantifiable effect it is not a fact that they can be said to heal anything.


A single trip report could be worth a thousand peer reviewed papers, and a thousand trip reports could create a new science -- if you're willing to listen.


>> A single trip report could be worth a thousand peer reviewed papers

It really couldn't, you know. It's subjective experience.

>> and a thousand trip reports could create a new science

A thousand may contain useful data if corrected for confirmation bias etc, but no, not a whole new science.

>> if you're willing to listen.

I have tripped. Many times. I know it well. It's not about being willing to listen, it's about being objective.


Not everything needs to be objectively verified in order to be agreed upon as useful or valid. Sometimes objective validation comes, by necessity, later.

I would recommend watching this documentary from Alejandro Jodorowsky's son, Christobol. Its important to watch it all the way through. In it he discusses Psychomagic and Psychoshamanism (two fields his father developed) and the relationship between ritual and healing, and how belief plays into the psychological or subconscious mechanism that promotes recovery. That's all I meant by my obviously rhetorical comments above, that there is an enormous amount of power within the belief centers of being.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOya-MersYs


Sorry, no time to dedicate to watching fanciful bullshit.

And yes, it does need to be verified before it can be said to be useful.


Welp




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