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My TL;DR is really, just have an open mind because until we really truly understand how the brain works then you don't really know what type of "magic" is invol

• colordrops 3y ago
  I'm very open minded, and have some pretty crazy ideas about reality (just look at my comment history), and in fact practice nondual meditation, which is grounded in the idea that everything is mind, and there is no separation between objective and subjective reality. Pretty magical stuff. But topics have scope. I still find value in science. I recognize that science is just the map and not the territory, and is not a final answer about any truth. Within the confines of science itself though, there are an internal set of rules that keep it consistent. Intermingling two systems only confuses the issue. I don't use dzogchen nondual meditation to analyze chemical reactions, and I don't use science to analyze the qualia of my personal experience. That being said, there is room for going up a level and seeing where the two systems might synergize or interact, but it requires a lot of thought and effort. It's not just something you come up with off the cuff. Magic in the Harry Potter sense may exist but until there is some mechanism for measuring it and understanding it, there's no room for it within scientific methods. It's a metaphysical issue to intertwine the two ideas, not a physical one.