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A single trip report could be worth a thousand peer reviewed papers, and a thousand trip reports could create a new science -- if you're willing to listen.
by cnp 11y ago
A single trip report could be worth a thousand peer reviewed papers, and a thousand trip reports could create a new science -- if you're willing to listen.
- Nursie 11y ago>> A single trip report could be worth a thousand peer reviewed papers It really couldn't, you know. It's subjective experience. >> and a thousand trip reports could create a new science A thousand may contain useful data if corrected for confirmation bias etc, but no, not a whole new science. >> if you're willing to listen. I have tripped. Many times. I know it well. It's not about being willing to listen, it's about being objective.
- cnp 11y agoNot everything needs to be objectively verified in order to be agreed upon as useful or valid. Sometimes objective validation comes, by necessity, later. I would recommend watching this documentary from Alejandro Jodorowsky's son, Christobol. Its important to watch it all the way through. In it he discusses Psychomagic and Psychoshamanism (two fields his father developed) and the relationship between ritual and healing, and how belief plays into the psychological or subconscious mechanism that promotes recovery. That's all I meant by my obviously rhetorical comments above, that there is an enormous amount of power within the belief centers of being. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOya-MersYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOya-MersYs