Witches are still executed in some countries, including US 'allies' like Saudi Arabia. This doesn't happen in western countries because western countries are more tolerant, but also because fewer westerners believe in witchcraft, they think its pretend.
Suppose that we did succeed in proving shared dreaming, premonitions, or astral projection related phenomena. These are interrelated enough that we'd effectively be proving that its possible to influence other people mentally, and see a little bit, in a limited and unreliable way, into people's mental secrets. How will most people react to that? Will we need huge dream and thought police agencies, enforcing rules made by secret courts, like we have for the internet? Will hearsay and speculation become grounds for presuming guilt, once people have proved that intuition is a real source of information? Or even without that, will people's increased fear of psychically capable people be a more crushing emotional and karmic burden for them? I think this is all looking ever more dubious in light of recent news events. Something on the order of half the US regards Snowden as a traitor. Are you sure you're less of a threat than he is? Maybe the anonymity of ridicule and disbelief is better.
Sorry, I'm just in that kind of mood.
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