Specifically, qualitative data can still be regarded as data and inquiry can be of exterior or interior phenomena. Just because we had a traumatic dissociation in the west doesn't mean science and spirituality are incompatible by default.
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Obviously. They just don’t have any claim to the null hypothesis.
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Also, if someone rapes the mind of a student by imprinting untruth, I perceive them as fundamentally confused or violating my first moral principles by removing moral agency from someone who trusts them. I won’t trust such authority any more than a pig should trust the butcher.
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Um... I don't disagree with that. Are we talking about specific gnostic practices, or the crazies who tend to teach them? Those are two different conversations. Newton was as close to a quack as anyone. Yet calculus is one of the greatest discoveries/inventions in human history.
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I don't think that an idea can be tainted by the one who has it. But by the same account, no idea can be accepted without having a pretty good idea about why it should be treated as truth.
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That's correct - I wasn't arguing otherwise. (And by the same token, you can't judge the validity of an experiential claim (e.g. if use your attention in X way, you will observe Y result) until you've followed those instructions.)
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The teaching of practices is of course a very different thing than the teaching of ontological, moral or ethical precepts.
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My claim is that there are practices that can give you access to observations that cannot be accessed by looking through a scanning electron microscope, carrying out a statistical analysis, or deriving a conclusion from a set of axioms.
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Absolutely, and each observation has to be explained. The frame of the explanation itself cannot be generated by divine revelation.
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You're also focusing an awful lot on claims about the the physical world. Gnostic systems tend to have laughably unscientific descriptions of cosmology. Yet they also have powerful practical insights. Anyway... I personally prefer smoking burning bushes to talking to them.
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Just don’t try to smoke all the bushes that want to talk to you.
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