Woo things that are obviously real based on personal experiences I've had: –Awakening/enlightenment –Chakras –Energy work, "energy" –Psychic levels of intuition Woo things where I'm still not convinced: –Sound healing -Astrology -Magick
@sashachapin none of these stand up to testing, and personal experience is the justification for every false belief ever. I realize the state of science makes it unreliable as a truth-finding endeavor right now, but what convinced you to throw out the bedrock of healthy epistemics?
@sashachapin This is helpful, thanks. Basically tracks with my experience. I am tempted to think sound healing of some kind is real because of the ikaros that ayahuasca shamans sing and such
@sashachapin Sound healing is wayyy more tangible than your first list. I've had luck/outcomes with your entire list. Depends on what your definition of "magick" is -- but its more or less practiced on our population every day psychically with media.
@sashachapin What about chakras specifically? Just that they exist?
@sashachapin Have you had a birth chart reading from a reputable astrologer?
My best understanding of Astrology is that the planets simply reflect the energy state that our cosmos is in. Its not the planets or stars that have an effect on you, but when you have reached a certain point in the "cycle" then the planets will naturally be at specific positions spiraling inward/outward. If the color red makes you think of strawberries and firetrucks, as you shift up in frequency yellow might make you think of bees and the sun. As you phase through these frequencies different impressions unravel, and that is "the cycle". January's frequency may be closer to red, the summers frequency may be closer to yellow, If Jupiter is in "retrograde" we may be closer to blue, etc etc
@sashachapin For which of the four things in the first category were you open to being real before they became real in experience, if any?
@sashachapin The psychic stuff must just be unconscious processing of very subtle cues, right?
@sashachapin my merely 120 percentile openness still isn’t high enough to believe crystals will heal me