Re:The Shamanic View of Mental Illness (2010)
by metaphorm on Thursday April 13, 2017 @10:13AM
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I'll point out to you, as I did another poster, that the word esoteric doesn't mean "mysterious" or "spiritual". it means "only understood by those with specialized knowledge".
additionally I would refute your claim that the subconscious (or really anything to do with consciousness) is well understood by science. it is acknowledged as being a thing that exists and just as readily acknowledged as being a thing that is poorly understood, at least from a materialist science perspective.
the models of consciousness that produce more thorough and well-explored theories tend to come from spiritual traditions, such as Buddhism, rather than materialist traditions.
Re:The Shamanic View of Mental Illness (2010)
by hutzlibu on Thursday April 13, 2017 @05:44PM
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I read it. And I wrote esoteric in the common understanding of the word. Which is different than the original meaning.
And I did not said that subconscious "is well understood by science", just that it is broadly accepted that it exists, unlile gods.
And the concept of a higher beeing... and in general esoteric things, and least in the common understanding of the word, not so much.
That beeing said, I am quite open and interested in esoteric things(even though I prefer the word spiritual), I just wanted to point out a more likely explanation to the op. Not ridiculing his version.