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The use of drugs, hallucinogens or other trance-inducing behaviour to invoke [[Dreaming of Things to Come]]. [[Truth in Television]] - its use, if not its effectiveness - as many people past and present have associated hallucinations with [[Religion Is Magic|spiritual experiences]].
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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...
* The spacemen from ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
* The Oracle in ''[[
* Johnny Depp's character in the film version of ''[[From Hell]]'' has opium-induced psychic visions.
* The Precogs or "Oracles" of ''[[Minority Report]]'' only have premonitions while sleeping, so they kept on heavy doses of drugs so that they're in a perpetual sleepy trance.
** Also exists in the
* ''~Scotland, PA~'' (a [[Setting Update|modernized adaptation]] of ''[[Macbeth]]'') had the three witches portrayed as stoned bohemians.
* [[Dakota Fanning]] in ''[[Push]]'' uses alcohol to increase her abilities as a Watcher. The catch? She's 12.
* In the Western ''[[The Hallelujah Trail]]'', Donald Pleasence plays "Oracle" (of course), who's able to prophesy with the help of a taste of booze. The catch is that liquor is in short supply in his small town, and he's prophesying about the arrival of a
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Isaac Mendes in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', although he eventually learns to use his powers without drugs.
* {{spoiler|The Wizard is [[Invoked Trope|kept this way]], as a means of controlling him,}} in the sci-fi channel miniseries ''[[Tin Man (TV series)|Tin Man]]''.
* Colonial oracles in ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]''.
* 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'.
* ''[[Fallout 4]]'' has Mama Murphy, a fortune teller whose power – according to her, at least – is fuelled by chems.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Meatwad, from ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
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** Same applies to John of Revelation, albeit with the addition of bizarre symbolism.
* Traditional shamans in many historical and some modern cultures often use various ethnobotanicals, such as psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, peyote to induce transcendent states for spiritual purposes.
* The ancient, Vedic ("Indo-Aryan") inhabitants of India used "soma' to feel at one with the universe and induce some fairly wacky visions, if the poems they left behind are any indication. (Note that nobody knows from which plant, or what else, soma comes from. However you know now where [[Brave New World (
* 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]]).
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▲== [[Western Animation]] ==
▲* Meatwad, from ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Animation)|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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