I didn't say I believe in magic. I said people who practice it sometimes have powerful realizations akin to results from meditation.
When they don't go completely insane, that is.
Well, sometimes then, too.
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I don't "believe" in meditation either. It just happens to do some cool things, which seems reason enough to take it seriously.
I know meditators who claim things I have never experienced nor can substantiate that anyone else has experienced. I am skeptical of any such claim.
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But this also segues nicely into why I am skeptical of dismissive or proscriptive claims.
You haven't experienced A, B or C doing X, Y or Z? I hesitate to care.
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I don't mean to imply everything has the same ontological status, but there are so many times I experienced something A) someone said was impossible or B) someone said was irrelevant, that was fun or transformative.
So I don't believe those claims more than I do flying yogins.
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Imagine if we went around telling everyone that certain training regimens don't work because they don't invariably produce olympic-class athletes.
It feels a lot like that, sometimes.
But conversely, people claim things that produce only cripples and fools are "powerful", too.
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Yeah, well, I have indeed had my fair share of poking different bears. :P
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