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I didn't say *the* normal state of reality, I said their normal state. And that's not untrue, so why do you think you've proved Hancock a liar?
by mandmandam 2y ago
I didn't say *the* normal state of reality, I said their normal state.
And that's not untrue, so why do you think you've proved Hancock a liar?
- tootie 2y agoThere's only one reality that we're all in all the time.
- ab5tract 2y agoAnd you just happen to know the precise shape of it all? Reality just unfolded its entire mysteries for you and you alone, I guess.
- tootie 2y agoNo. But it didn't unfold itself to anyone else either. Shamans have never produced a single falsifiable hypothesis. Reality is exposed but by bit through observation and experimentation. Preferably while sober.
- ab5tract 2y agoThe combination of plants that creates ayahuasca appeared in a dream. Shamans have identified cancers and illnesses in people. If science can’t cope with these realities, that’s a science problem.
- mandmandam 2y agoThat's it. Shamans appear in disparate cultures over millenia upon millenia, helping people in astounding and near-inexplicable ways... And modern academia is just like, 'well, they believe in spirits and take drugs so they must be dumb - now off I go to work to pay my $400,000 mortgage, because that's sensible'. We owe these traditions an astonishing unacknowledged debt, and the people telling us so are ferociously attacked. It's a shame. And it will change.