Rory
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My feelings on all this so far:
- There are some amazing things in yoga, meditation, spirituality, etc that western science doesn't really understand and/or can't currently explain
- There is also a lot of nonsense in ancient Hindu texts (not difficult to find examples)
- Materialists tend to 'throw the baby out with the bathwater' and, since they lack spiritual experience, prematurely and somewhat blinkeredly conclude that spiritual experience is impossible
- 'Spiritualists' can sometimes be prone to delusion and lack intellectual rigour and historical understanding
- There are "energy channels" within the human body, and these can be felt and utilised
- Probably someone in the distant past sensed this and figured they could 'intuit' a map of it. Then other people embellished that. This happened separately in India and China and, since they were both wrong, neither map lined up
- People hundreds of later still repeat these claims about meridians and nadis, and sometimes provide what they feel is scientific backup for these claims
- We here on metabunk have looked at certain of these claims and found that they lack merit
And here we are today.
- There are some amazing things in yoga, meditation, spirituality, etc that western science doesn't really understand and/or can't currently explain
- There is also a lot of nonsense in ancient Hindu texts (not difficult to find examples)
- Materialists tend to 'throw the baby out with the bathwater' and, since they lack spiritual experience, prematurely and somewhat blinkeredly conclude that spiritual experience is impossible
- 'Spiritualists' can sometimes be prone to delusion and lack intellectual rigour and historical understanding
- There are "energy channels" within the human body, and these can be felt and utilised
- Probably someone in the distant past sensed this and figured they could 'intuit' a map of it. Then other people embellished that. This happened separately in India and China and, since they were both wrong, neither map lined up
- People hundreds of later still repeat these claims about meridians and nadis, and sometimes provide what they feel is scientific backup for these claims
- We here on metabunk have looked at certain of these claims and found that they lack merit
And here we are today.
