your right about it being semantics, and largely a problem of language
If it is just a problem of language, then "chakras" are no more than special points in our body. No more, there are no energy flowing through it.
Some Einstein quotes to consider;
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man. (Albert Einstein)
Another Einstein quote: "The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses".
There is nothing super-natural about spiritual energy. It is all completely natural, I assure you. You can find this out for yourself.
No, I cannot prove the existence of chakras and astral projection. Nobody can
You're contradicting yourself. This is quote from wiki of what I(and other people) understand of "supernatural":
The supernatural or supranatural (Latin: super, supra "above" + natura "nature") is anything above or beyond what one holds to be natural or exists outside natural law and the observable universe"
The problem comes when people such as yourself are constantly telling those who are able to perceive beyond the five senses that what they are experiencing is wrong. Imagine being an open receiver to far more information than your mind is used to accepting as reality, and other people telling you that you're crazy and delusional, or that it's the work of the devil. That is why people crack and end up in hospitals, on mind-destroying anti-psychotics.
OMG, hallucinations are just hallucinations. And although I agree that it is alright for
that person to experience them, sometimes hallucinations can be dangerous.
Where are your proofs? I don't see any sense or reason in interpreting hallucinations as "perceiving more about other world". Maybe it is perceiving more about your own subconscious.
The super-conscious, or universal mind that connects everything
Show me it. Prove its existence.
Allium, can you conceive that there may be things beyond your hunter-gatherer level of awareness which cannot be exploited as a global commodity (due to their aspect beyond the immediate flesh) but which may be immensley useful to the individual, and thus the universe at large?
There are things that I cannot perceive, because my capabilities are limited(like, say, I cannot see/touch every individual atom in my t-shirt), but these things can be perceived in other way.
What are the things you talking about? How can they be useful for us?
Of course, I am always open to new ideas and new knowledge. But I am not going to believe in things which "Nobody can prove".
To the skeptics, you should be skeptical of everything you have ever been taught, and that you have based your ideas upon to be skeptical of those things which you havn't experienced yet. How do you know that everything you think you know based on what you have learned from external sources is true? Because the television said so?
Too much consiparacy. There are always scepsis in science, experiments and studies are sometimes proven as wrong/incorrect. All experiments are repeated multiple times.
IMO Science is slllllooooooowwwlllyyyyyyy uncovering these secrets. The whole field of quamtum mechanics and theoretical physics is doing just so.....the whole concept of "dark matter" and "parallel dimensions" blows my mind.
What secrests? "Dark matter" is just such matter that don't interact with our usual matter very much.
This is obviously backwards, since the scientific method does not provide knowledge of anything beyond mere speculation about observed results.
The very big difference between science and ... uh, "spiritual" point of view(can I call it this way?) is that the science really works. Adore the science for the ability to argue here on bluelight.
I can "telepathically" transfer my thoughts with just pressing "Post Quick Reply". Show me anything that cool. I mean, anything cool that I would be able to do with "3rd eye" or any other "spiritual" concept.
People, who are contemptuous of science, are clearly underestimating it.
