Jeff wrote:
> Folks who are inclined to mystical explanations of reality tend to take
> anything that is not yet explained--or not explained fully or with great
> confidence--by the methods of science, and attribute its features to
> mystical agencies, and to claim that it cannot now, cannot ever be
> explained by science, and that therefore science is--hurray!! we
> win--inferior to faith and mysticism.
Bullshit.
If you knew people who were mystically inclined, you would know better.
Please quit projecting your personal biases onto others.
I'm mystically inclined and have no problems with scientific explanations for
phenomena. It does not effect the subjectivity of experiences or the fact that
there are phenomena which we cannot be readily explained because they have
occurred outside of the lab. The late Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan was a proponent of
meditation within the Jewish religious tradition and of Kabbalah. He was well
respected. He was also a nuclear physicist and was well respected there as
well. Your explanation does people a disservice with its simple minded
thinking and dislike of people different than yourself.
Al Billings
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Al Billings -- <memoria@memoria.com> -- http://www.memoria.com
"We have made you a creature neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal
nor immortal, in order that you may, as the free and proud shaper of your
own being, fashion yourself in the form you may prefer."
-- Pico della Mirandola
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