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Guru Right to Reply with Jamie Wheal

Decoding the Gurus

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The Other Issue I've Got With It Is There Is No Reality Testing

Jordan Hall: I don't feel like it's really meaningful to wax that lyrical on the sort of transcendent subjective experiences. The other issue I've got with it is that there is no reality testing. It's not observable, right? So we're in a profit. We have to take it on faith that these things are happening. When you say running 70 different paradigms,. Oh, well, sure. And that's true with any. But where Matt is talking about, I think what Matt is emphasizing is the claims made about introspective enlightenment experiences or appeals to special knowledge gained through introspection are inherently subjective. He says he has an academic interest around ritual psychology and the

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