I think that's a legitimate grievance, actually, and hope to stand apart from that in this entry at least. I don't mean to interpret science in a mystical way, maybe interpreting the mystical in a critical-- not even scientific, though it draws a bit from those methods-- way.
Part of it came from this video I watched online once, Michael Shermer's lecture for TED talks, 'Why people believe strange things'. The visual below is from the part where he reasons that scientists shouldn't have their findings dismissed simply because they keep changing scientific facts. That's the point of the process, that, as we improve the quality of data—— for example, better telescopes—— then our ideas of the way something is, will change, and progress. So, we know now that Saturn is not three planetary bodies squished together like Galileo first thought, but that it has rings. It's not even the farthest planet.
There doesn't seem to be any process like this for investigating the psi body. Not all scanners can see auras, and in one Psipog chat log that I can't find now, the host said that s/he only saw concentrations of psi-body energy in people who believed in them. How to get better observation "technology", when the only kind we have for this sort of thing is our own deceptive mind?
I wrote an entry before about my experiences with the worthlessly cliche third eye. As some people's definition of reality is whatever doesn't disappear when you stop believing in it, I figured that what's real will be surprising. The third eye met that given value of reality, for me. I understand the resistance that Psipog based practitioners would have towards the chakra system. It was taken from an Eastern tradition so ancient that it didn't have scientific standards of testing, and then Westernized (i.e., misinterpreted and mangled.) But, PsiPog's site owner shut it down with a note that he was satisfied with proving the existence of psi to himself... and, not being a psychokinetic myself, I suppose at this stage I can only do the same. Oh, and proving it to other clairvoyants like Mahadevi, who in turn can only prove to himself that he really sees it. And to me, even though I'm more a tactile interpreter. Which, I realize, helps our case none at all, so I might as well move on to describing my personal experience.
(I wonder sometimes at the ready dismissal of anecdotal evidence. It's unreliable by nature, but I find it odd how the reverse seems to apply: that if it is anecdotal, it must be untrue. It's like saying, "Galileo and other great minds were ridiculed and persecuted, so the next person spouting ridiculous ideas worthy of persecution is surely the next Galileo." I don't think the fault in that reasoning gives us cause or excuse to continue ridicule of any idea that an individual or group finds too "out there" in the present... hmm... actually, yeah, it kind of does. I digress.)
The lesser-concerned solar plexus chakra gave different feedback when I meditated on it. I was expecting a vortex-like sensation to form, like how I felt that third eye, but instead my solar plexus began shooting quick rippling sensation outwards from navel to sternum-base. As for the crown chakra, since the tutorial I initially followed only showed red dots to mark the location, I assumed it opened front-and-back like the lower ones. Instead, I felt a thick sort of shifting above my head, and then understood why it was called the thousand-petaled lotus. Felt more like a thousand stroking fingers, actually, or maybe thousand tentacled non-stinging fat squishy jellyfish because that's how it felt: a ring of just so many thick paintbrush-streak sensations, pulsing and alternating like a jellyfish pumping through the water. Illustrations of this chakra sometimes showed a lotus flower flaring up from the head, and didn't really make sense to me. I only remember one video where they showed the "lotus" blooming so big that it dropped over the arch, and the "petals" dipped under and back in... so, it looked more like a scaley donut.
Lately, without meditation, I've felt a cool gentle sort of vent in the middle of my sternum. I didn't get any kind of psychic sight from developing the third eye, manipulation didn't increase with development of the second stomach, and I certainly never connected with the ultimate divine from the thousand-scale donut squishy jellyfish! But, this new thing mostly lights up when I'm feeling sentimental. Of course, I'd read about the heart chakra before, enough to possibly be coloring this experience, but, like the other three I didn't expect this.
A humbling endpiece, by Carl Sagan in the fourth episode of his documentary, Cosmos:
The absence of anything to see on Venus led some scientists to the curious conclusion that the surface was a swamp, like the Earth in the Carboniferous Period. The argument—— if we can dignify it by such a word ——went something like this: 'I can't see a thing on Venus' 'Why not?' 'Because it's totally covered with clouds' 'What are clouds made of?' 'Water, of course' 'Then why are the clouds of Venus thicker than the clouds on Earth?' 'Because there's more water there.' 'But if there is more water in the clouds, there must be more water on the surface. What kind of surfaces are very wet?' 'Swamps.' And if there are swamps, why not cyacads and dragonflies and perhaps even dinosaurs on Venus? Observation: I can't see a thing! Conclusion: Dinosaurs!
I can't see a thing! :(
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