My review of "Why Science is Wrong..."

"WHY SCIENCE IS WRONG... About Almost Everything" by Alex Tsakiris, host of the Skeptiko podcast, is a striking nail in the coffin of scientific materialism.

The book gets ⭐⭐⭐⭐ from me because its title is going to make its message about a more magical and mysterious world unapproachable by many. This is why I've paraphrased its title for this review, Why Scientific Materialism is WRONG... About Almost Everything.


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Intriguing. I'll check it out although I haven't read the book.
EVERYTHING changing. Rediscovering the AETHER. And yes, MAGIC.
Adios, Descartes!
 
Well, I guess without having read the book, I don't know how thorough your review was. A tangent for other things, perhaps?...
Skepticat was cute.
Boy, are we going to see some massively accelerated change in the times to come. Good to have a foundation in strong ideologies, but we're going to have to let go of or straight up chuck most of the labels and institutions. Tribalism actually is no longer a working model. Everybody different.
On a similar note, "Jesus" was a "virus" in a particular time and place to shake it up and inspire freedom. With personal responsibility. There were others (many) besides him.
Now we're at a point where dependence on outside concepts is failing. They must be REALIZED. Embodied. Without labels. Inclusive.
So... DO be that which was modeled by other shining examples. Become the Christ. Or whatever one wants to call it. The ideals are all that matters, not the names or labels.
We live in a NEW era.
So much history...
Curious about biohacking, but didn't research it. You engage with plant intelligences? Wholly? Have much experience with psychedelics from nature?...
Oh, and just to be clear, I have nothing against "Christians" or such. It's just that labels inherently have no meaning in and of themselves.
Take a room of 100 "Christians" or "Republicans" or what-have-you and they won't all have the same beliefs, standards, or even values. Such is the world we live in.
It's more about what's on the INSIDE and then communicating that outwardly.
But... Everybody different!
 
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I'll check it out.
I've done LOTS of psychedelics, mostly twenty some years ago in my college days. Mushrooms and LSD back then.
Also, aya a couple times (have some in the fridge as a gift from five years ago) and salvia divinorum (my favorite for DMT) and bufo (the toad).
Definitely expands ones world view.
Curious about micro dosing, but I haven't explored it.
 
"WHY SCIENCE IS WRONG... About Almost Everything" by Alex Tsakiris, host of the Skeptiko podcast, is a striking nail in the coffin of scientific materialism.

The book gets ⭐⭐⭐⭐ from me because its title is going to make its message about a more magical and mysterious world unapproachable by many. This is why I've paraphrased its title for this review, Why Scientific Materialism is WRONG... About Almost Everything.



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I read your review, and I agree with far more than I disagree.

I would say that as a non-christian it is possible to believe that there is something after death - but probably not a Christian heaven. I think it is important to realise that much of humanity is not Christian, simply because they live in some other part of the world. The NDE's present a very different perspective on judgement. In general the judgement is done by the person who is close to death. NDE's happen to religious people and non-religious ones.

The other (somewhat related) part I disagree with is your rather sweeping dismissal of reincarnation - seemingly because it doesn't fit in with Christianity! The work done by Stephenson and Tucker involved screening many reports of reincarnation and focussing on those that presented the strongest evidence. I do agree it is hard to understand those results, but I think the Skeptiko tradition is to follow where the data leads rather than filter the data through your biases - which is what science has done for far too long, and got itself into a mess in the process.

David
 
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