Translation: Profoundly spiritual experiences have been found to ease anxiety and depression in cancer patients. Since a days long fasting vision quest with continuous prayer and no sleep could not easily be administered to the test subjects, we cut to the chase by having trained shamans facilitators give them hallucinogens and counseling.
Snark aside, it’s sad how religion and spirituality need to be repackaged in secular guise to get people to take them seriously these days.
