What are some fun/funny psychological facts you know?

Witchcraft and alchemy

Today’s re-wording: interest — and professional expertise — in preparing, applying and appropriately utilizing herbal / natural medicine (from chamomile to ... perhaps usage of peyote, ayahuasca, or DMT, or psilocybin shrooms) for conditions, being aware of ... the way witches were thought to have made potions but really they just were midwives who passed word of natural remedies or people who went rogue and utilized “unfamiliar” or “unconventional” medicinal practices, like today’s common unconventional protocols of microdosing psilocybin shrooms, or underground guided MDMA therapy, or ketamine therapy for depression — or stuff as simple as the art of mixing up products like “cannabis/Hemp distillate vape cartridges, and/or “frontier therapeutic ideas” like usage of the active medication in rybelsus as a weight loss agent (or as bad as using major amounts of neurontin when it was over-prescribed on the off-label. indications, and thus...causing issues resulting in a lawsuit against Pfizer for reparations).

seances and yoga

Today’s definition: “spirituality, oneness...sense of well-being, fulfillment, being in-tune with the forces of energy, and...well, “yoga,” just the same.

Funny how old terminology is almost common if you translate it based on the usage of it at the times, and all associated implications of ease with which we may draw modern parallels to such old and almost notoriety-assocated terms, in the modern age.

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