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Re:The World’s Most Innovative Economies by mikeash on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @02:59PM (#13420632)
Spirituality does indeed seem to be outside the scope of science, because it's not real. If it were real, it ought to be amenable to scientific investigation. The notion that it's real but can't be scientifically investigated makes no sense to me.
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Re:The World’s Most Innovative Economies by fsloth on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @01:01AM (#13424398)
Spirituality is not outside of science. We can study humans in the psychological states raised by practices in the spiritual traditions http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/07/dalai-lama....

The challenge from scientific point of view with human traditions is that they are a mishmash of established techniques affecting measurable outcomes and superstition, and sometimes it's quite hard to tell from the point of view of an outsider which is which.

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Re:The World’s Most Innovative Economies by mikeash on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @10:21AM (#13426901)
To the extent that spirituality encompasses aspects of psychology then clearly it can be studied, but it hardly seems useful to call it "spirituality" then.
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