There are many theories in this space to consider and we can't feasibly consider them all. Some amount of rigidity is of course required to even begin probing i

There are many theories in this space to consider and we can't feasibly consider them all. Some amount of rigidity is of course required to even begin probing into something new. Since humans have finite lifespans, we all develop some heuristics (probably heavily biased ones) to serve as filters for what is efficient to consider. As such, one of my (again, heavily biased) filters are any such claims that meditation could have an outsized impact on the level of deviance/crime in the Washington DC. " We present the published results of a National Demonstration Project-in which 4,000 advanced meditators markedly reduced violent crime in Washington, DC." I simply don't have time to consider this as my personal biases are telling me to ignore it and that it is bad science. Furthermore, the researcher here very frequently makes use of highly theoretical and even unproven concepts such as string theory and a particular variant of the multiple universes idea which has also not been proven. Both are presented misleadingly as concrete fact rather than assumptions made. I dislike being misled and distrust the researcher moreso because of that. I assume your biases are quite different from mine. I assume some level of experimentation with hallucinogenic drugs may be involved? No judgement - I've just seen lots of similar appeals to philosophical interpretations of physics from other LSD users I know.