Hormone treatment for menopause. "what if men had this problem?" Thinks the answer would come sooner. The problem is, men do go through that stuff and there is no treatment or care at all.
Ayahuasca: the new druggie excuse to do drugs for religious purposes.
Recession? Recession
Amazon has the first negative growth rate since 2014.
Google's profits have dropped 34%.
Florida has a larger workforce than New York for the first time ever.
Propaganda
Mike Pompeo, who is running for president, says the transition from trump to Biden went smoothly. Also, anyone who disagrees or tried to ask questions is a violent person who should be prosecuted.
The New York Times says investors are happy the recession is here.
The EU plans to defeat Russia by banning all crude oil from their enemy. This is happening as spring is about to happen. Russia is selling to other countries, but the EU believes this will drive Russia to the ground.
Is there anything quite so silly as rich Americans taking vacations to the South American jungle to trip balls and barf in buckets with total strangers? Well, psychedelic egalitarianism is at it again, and coming soon to a rural American town near you!
Ayahuasca churches have a better chance of getting governmental approval than churches using LSD, that's for sure. There's always been a bias in favor of "allowing" peyote use by easily controlled Indians on reservations, and this one imports the whole noble savage mystique. Speaking of LSD "church," I have a warm nostalgic place in my heart for this wacky outfit, though I don't buy nihilistic solipsism, even if Snazzm, Fazzm, and McPozzum are interesting and Kleps is a very funny and insightful writer: https://okneoac.org/
"Millbrook" is an excellent book, BTW.
Anyway the whole idea of an institutional psychedelic religion is a bad one.
Psychedelic trips are an individual thing, for the lone monk in the wilderness (so to speak), not the fucking priest handing out barf buckets to his congregation.
Psychedelic taking is most definitely a "religious" practice that should be protected by the First Amendment, even though plenty of people take psychedelics for any number of different reasons.
Arizona has a bunch of places like this. Sedona is the most famous. They're called rock worshippers.
I remember fake religion books that made me laugh. Then I read something like this and it makes me laugh more.
"New Age" is a grift that seems to have taken root in places like Sedona. I never thought it would outlast the '80s.
The problem is, their minds never left the 80's.