Re:The Varieties of Mystical Experience
by nprateem on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @02:29AM
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It's whatever makes sense to you. The fact is there is strong consistency between traditions in this core meditation.
Maybe you just prefer to take instructions on blind faith, but for me his claim that feelings cause the body to produce chemicals which influence the cells makes sense, removing my resistance to this meditation.
His logical fallacies etc do not necessarily undermine the meditation.
YMMV.
It is possible to write scientifically about meditation and altered states of consciousness without liberally reinterpreting all of physics. See Sam Harris or John Yates for example (both neuroscientists). What the hell is this guy a doctor of, anyway…? Chiropractic. Why am I not surprised.