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While I'm intensely skeptical across-the-board, why is it that the psychedelic examples in this article (aliens and so forth) are outrageous and signs of insanity... but commonplace beliefs like, and this is my personal pet peeve, astrology, is a norm? And I apologise if I offend someone in advance, but what about religions? Guys come back to life, angels, prophets. All that stuff is in the same category. And yet, that's not lunacy. But Ram Das is.

Here's a thought that isn't novel: societies dictate what's sane and what's not. Not rationality. Thank (insert deity) for science and its methods.



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