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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The Doctor of ''[[The Authority]]'' might qualify. Not sure if the drugs enhanced his powers or if he was just a particularly powerful junkie, though...
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* Interesting version in ''[[Misfits]]''; Curtis normally has [[Mental Time Travel]] abilities which only work [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|backwards]], but a power-reversing [[Fantastic Drug]] gives him a vision of the future.
* ''[[Dragnet]]'' had an episode called, you guessed it, 'The Prophet', which featured an LSD user and his 'Temple of the Expanded Mind'.
 
== [[WesternVideo AnimationGames]] ==
* ''[[Fallout 4]]'' has Mama Murphy, a fortune teller whose power – according to her, at least – is fuelled by chems.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Meatwad, from ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'', begins to give out predictions in a Godly monotone, like Frylock exploding (from his point of view - it really was someone leaving a grenade on their porch after Frylock opened the door, which only irritated Frylock). Turns out, he got visions from eating glue.
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
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* There's a theory that Aztec mythology was full of feathered snakes and corn- or snake-headed deities and heart-ripping directly because of the amounts of mescaline and mushrooms (of the magic variety) their priests were using to induce visions. The heart-ripping probably caused by a horror trip.
* [[Aleister Crowley]] was by all reasonable measurements, a complete heroin/cocaine junkie. He did, however, found a religion, Thelema, and promote it. There are still Thelemites around today, too.
* [[Philip K. Dick]] went through some pretty strange epiphanies after a heroic dosage of sodium pentothal. See [https://web.archive.org/web/20100925024414/http://www.philipkdickfans.com/weirdo/weirdo1.htm The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick] (illustrated by Robert Crumb for a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]).
* [[wikipedia:Timothy Leary|Dr. Timothy Leary]] is a Real Life example from the Hippie Era. He coined the phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out" and was a major promoter of the spiritual use of LSD. His advocates included many 60s/70s counterculture icons, including [[The Beatles]].
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Meatwad, from ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'', begins to give out predictions in a Godly monotone, like Frylock exploding (from his point of view - it really was someone leaving a grenade on their porch after Frylock opened the door, which only irritated Frylock). Turns out, he got visions from eating glue.
 
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