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Sciborg_S_Patel
Good post Michael.
It's interesting to compare and contrast interior and exterior science, in that both rely on the idea that if you followed the instructions you would get some results. Both also seem to take regularities in data and extrapolate them into exclusionary certainties.
Materialists make a mistake in assuming the laws of nature have any coercive power that can be used for a priori exclusion of anomalous phenomena. But it seems to me immaterialists make a similar mistake in assuming that the apparent revelations of particular practices are definitive.
I may be wrong, but AFAIK the conclusions of those who practiced the Eleusian Mysteries seem to be different than those of practicing yoga, which in turn seem to be different than those of various shamanic traditions, which seem to differ from at least some magickal and occult practices.
Beyond that, it's not clear to me what separates that which is Maya from that which isn't. How does a Whole like Brahman become the Many, the various individual (and apparently illusory) subjective perspectives existing in this world (or beyond)?
It's interesting to compare and contrast interior and exterior science, in that both rely on the idea that if you followed the instructions you would get some results. Both also seem to take regularities in data and extrapolate them into exclusionary certainties.
Materialists make a mistake in assuming the laws of nature have any coercive power that can be used for a priori exclusion of anomalous phenomena. But it seems to me immaterialists make a similar mistake in assuming that the apparent revelations of particular practices are definitive.
I may be wrong, but AFAIK the conclusions of those who practiced the Eleusian Mysteries seem to be different than those of practicing yoga, which in turn seem to be different than those of various shamanic traditions, which seem to differ from at least some magickal and occult practices.
Beyond that, it's not clear to me what separates that which is Maya from that which isn't. How does a Whole like Brahman become the Many, the various individual (and apparently illusory) subjective perspectives existing in this world (or beyond)?