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I don't know about chakras, but 'Chi' followed imaginary conduits through the connective tissue that... turned out actually there are conduits through connectiv
by hinkley 8mo ago
I don't know about chakras, but 'Chi' followed imaginary conduits through the connective tissue that... turned out actually there are conduits through connective tissue for lymph to move. They're just really really tricky to image so we didn't know about them until about ten years ago.
I took a Yoga class years ago (my tight wrists made it very unpleasant) and on the last day of class the instructor pulled out some obscure stuff and had us do some energy work, which I was sure was going to be complete bollocks. And about five minutes before the end of the class I experienced feelings that were identical to Flow state (that slightly buzzy feeling when you're in the grove and just crushing a task.) I recall thinking, "Oh this is potentially addictive. I'm glad this is the last class."
I'm betting that 10-20% of the mysticism stuff eventually turns out to be true and the rest is speculation built on top of correlation with those objectively true bits. Science eventually gets around to studying coincidences. Medicine tends to be more arrogant and dismissive of anything they can't measure, for far longer than is strictly healthy.
- Tade0 8mo ago> Medicine tends to be more arrogant and dismissive of anything they can't measure, for far longer than is strictly healthy. There's good reason for that. A huge part of such stuff eventually turns out to be dangerous horseshit.
- hinkley 8mo agoI know an awful lot of people that have been diagnosed with diseases that they were told as recently as ten years ago, do not exist. If it was one disease, I’d be more sympathetic, but it’s more than half a dozen. The difference between god and a doctor is God doesn’t think he’s a doctor.
- Tade0 8mo agoI knew a person who died because they believed in dangerous horseshit. In the same town, another person died from a different type of dangerous horseshit - specifically the kambo ritual. In terms of methods dangerous horseshit outnumbers actual medical practice 10:1 at least. How do you know which one works? The latter at the very least is tested for safety and efficacy.
- hinkley 8mo agoCategory error. You understand there’s a difference between thinking windex will cure viruses and thinking you have a chronic illness, right?