Ethil wrote...
Anyway, if people could just learn to see spirits and shit by a few hours of meditation, everybody would have learned it already. Think it's faster to just do drugs.
A few hours of meditation can calm a person down and greatly expand his/her mind, so that he/she is able to handle stress better and less likely to rely on physical things, such as drugs, soda, TV, the internet, etc. But there are still a lot of angry people in the world who could not exist without their Starbucks, TV shows, movies, video games, internet, drugs, and sex. (Note: There is a difference between enjoying those things and needing those things to be able to enjoy life.)
Furthermore, I don't think it's just "a few hours" of meditation. The ability to lucid dream takes a lot of work, and that's a very common phenomenon.