Put in terms of a common metaphor that goes back to Plato, the fictional movies on the screen can ALL be different and, yes, of course, humanly and historically constructed, but the Light projecting them can be quite Real and the Same. To properly interpret Horgan’s data, we need to know.In fact, we need more than just the number of radiation patients included. I think it still is.Do We Possess a Transpersonal Imagination?Can Mysticism Help Us Solve the Mind-Body Problem,Meta-Post: Posts on the Mind-Body Problem,Meta-Post: Posts on Buddhism and Meditation.What Should We Do With Our Visions of Heaven—and Hell?A Buddhism Critic Goes on a Silent Buddhist Retreat,The Problem with Protesting Violence with Violence,Exposing the World's Biggest Carbon Emitters. Surely, to posit consciousness more widely is to break free from this particular kind of anthropocentrism? I think this is a non-problem, mostly because you have conflated two radically different forms of subjectivity.
All were at least partly inspired by the notion that “.There is a subset of Horgan’s sample he completely fails to identify.
There is only oneness.
By all accounts, Sir John is a charming, open-minded man, who emphasizes the importance of humility in all spheres of life. When you write of the mystical diversity problem, I think you overplay difference and submerge or sideline sameness. I suppose he is smart and well-educated in many areas.
But he doesn’t seem to give much credence or acknowledgement to the equally many with a favorable view of the value of PSA testing.
His reasoning is flawed, but he is certainly entitled to his view, to apply it to his life, and even to share his opinion. Product details We can no longer lazily lump them together simply as “radiation.” Articles making this mistake are significantly devalued and misleading.Furthermore, Horgan has provided no evidence that 60 of 80 men treated for prostate cancer with any of these methods have noteworthy side effects. Before that, they were only “rumors,” “anecdotes,” “superstitions.” Sound familiar? A related problem in his view is that the 'ineffability' of such experiences make them impossible to explain fully.But the extrinsic diversity of so-called exceptional experiences belies the intrinsic feature they all seem to share: a rupture in the ordinary frameworks of understanding. What happens to them?One or two would die, he says, and he accepts it as okay. October 2006. I did not immediately schedule a biopsy at the first sign of a rising PSA. Stories by John Horgan. John Horgan, a science journalist, writes the "Cross-check" blog for Scientific American, and directs the Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. John Horgan.
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In practice, mystics can have a lot to say about their experiences and give detailed accounts.I‘ll respond to this one at a personal level. There is radiation. He won’t have to make that decision.The underlying assumption—the essence of most anti-PSA-testing arguments—is that the PSA test causes bad things to happen. Here are the statistics he passes along to his readers from the NYT:At first glance, this certainly makes PSA testing seem worse than unnecessary, unless of course you become one of the deaths that could have been prevented. He provides an easily understandable, concise definition of the PSA test and the prostate.