woo
unorthodox, heretical, or hidden spiritual traditions - mysticism, magic, esoterica, the occult, etc.
woo
@relic_radiation Everyone I've asked to "pretend they can feel energy" can feel it
So I think ppl are blocked by either beliefs ("energy isn't real") or just having never paid attention to it, in the same way that some people barely ever use their nose
Tyler Altermanx.comWoo from people who take phenomenology, cognitive science, machine learning, and epistemology seriously of course will hit different. It's vastly more capable of self-articulation, development, testing, and consistency-checks. It's the good stuff.
Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilssonx.commy go-to definition, that comfortably dismisses much the nonsense that often gets caught up in ‘woo’, is “experiences that cannot be articulated by the part of the mind that can only understand experiences by articulating them”
Michael Ashcroftx.comthread
So, while we don’t have any scientifically valid theory about what such “energy” could be—all traditional explanations of it make no sense to the modern understanding of physiology—we can bring a certain empirical sensibility to our experiences anyway. We can become spiritual pragmatists. We can accept “energy” and its various traditional maps in a... See more