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Re:The Shamanic View of Mental Illness (2010) by metaphorm on Thursday April 13, 2017 @10:13AM (#14107054)
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 (#14111148)
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.