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Science knows what color is, how we perceive color, and it is trivial to show that someone can or cannot see color. Firsthand experience from meditation is onl
by floody-berry 14y ago
Science knows what color is, how we perceive color, and it is trivial to show that someone can or cannot see color.
Firsthand experience from meditation is only evidence that using your attention in certain ways has various effects on the brain, it says nothing about the existence of chakras, qi, energy fields, auras, or the existence of deities or supernatural entities you were concentrating on.
- Alex3917 14y ago"Science knows what color is, how we perceive color" As long as you're willing to accept that step 2 is "and then a miracle occurs." "Firsthand experience from meditation is only evidence that using your attention in certain ways has various effects on the brain, it says nothing about the existence of chakras, qi, energy fields, auras, or the existence of deities or supernatural entities you were concentrating on." Chakras, qi, energy, etc. are just names for phenomena you can experience. These phenomena may or may not be supernatural, but there is not necessarily anything supernatural needed for them to exist.
- illuminate 14y ago"Chakras, qi, energy, etc. are just names for phenomena you can experience. These phenomena may or may not be supernatural, but there is not necessarily anything supernatural needed for them to exist." The experiential is a real thing, but it does not necessarily have any greater meaning or value. "Energy" is felt, but that does not mean that it is any more valuable to healing than the hallucinations of a drug, or ecstatic religious experience.