Salvia is a potent but legal drug marketed with promises of producing a transcendental spiritual journey: out-of-body experiences, existence in multiple realities, the revelation of secret knowledge and, according to one online seller, "permanent mind-altering change in perception".
Usually when an actor is identified for life as his most famous creation, bitterness sets in and one does the equivalent of a rock band refusing to play their hit live, but not with Nimoy and Spock, who seemed to be locked in a permanent "mind-meld".
But he had a more immediate — and potentially more permanent — idea in mind.
The plan, of course, was to come back later and make the thing permanent, never mind the impact on the deficit.
Condon's book played on the fear that brainwashing could be permanent, that minds could be altered forever.
Last year an Obama administration official called on the aid community to adopt a "permanent campaign mind-set," in which fund-raising and promotion are on the front burner.
With permanent protest in mind, let's turn back to the question that this column began with.
The two great obstacles to getting people into permanent shelter, never mind full reconstruction, are the vast quantities of rubble and land disputes.
I only had a brief sliver of time with them (just about 90 minutes), but its impression will have a permanent mark in mind.
It was implanted in her mind, a permanent chip that contains the crowd's reaction to her near perfection.
At the age of fourteen, he was sent to Naples to be educated — a move that apparently left a permanent mark on his mind.
