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Re:Baltimore psychologist pioneers team using psychedelics a... by pantalaimon on Monday February 08, 2016 @06:36PM (#11061836)
> I'm probably not expressing this very well.

Hm, could be. So you are acknowledging the feeling of sacredness, but you think there is no point in trying to evoke some sort of artificial 'sacredness' as that would defeat the very nature of it? That the moment you are trying to dissect it, it vanishes?

Hm, maybe, but that's what we humans tend to do, sharing and categorizing experiences and when we do it systematically, it's science.

I don't see why we shouldn't do this.

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Re:Baltimore psychologist pioneers team using psychedelics a... by mbrock on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @04:13AM (#11064102)
To put it kind of humorously, I think science itself is sacred in its own way, and by introducing priest-like behavior among scientists, that's violating the sacredness of science as a distinct secular project.
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