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Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 17, 2025

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People become more religious, but legacy religions decline because people start new religions. We probably see AI religions and more psychedelic religions.

Using nootropics/folk medicine to enhance the well-being of healthy people becomes more common.

Roland Griffiths was probably on to something about creating brain stimulation devices that are able to produce mystical/spiritual experiences that are more reliable and specific than psychedelics.