
alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com Trialogue #27: Skepticism & The Balkanization Of Epistemology In this trialogue held on June 8, 1998 at Santa Cruz, CA, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Rupert Sheldrake explored the "fluff factor" and what degree of healthy skepticism is required these days. Terence McKenna: "Somehow as a part of the agenda of political correctness it has become not entirely acceptable to criticize, or demand substantial evidence, or expect people, when advancing their speculations, to make, what used to be called, old fashioned sense." Terence: "These phenomenon, which we know exist, and which we find rich in implication, would simply not be allowed as objects of discourse, they would be ruled out of order. So there's something wrong on one level with what's called empiricism, skepticism, positivism, it has different names." Terence:"[Empherical science] is a coarse-grained view of nature, and what it mitigates against seeing are the very things that feed the progress of science, which is the unassimilated phenomenon, the unusual data, the peculiar result of an experiment." Rupert Sheldrake: "Weirdness and cults and most of the phenomenon you've named are phenomenon of Hawaii and California. When you live in England, things take on a rather different perspective. There's a general level of popular skepticism, such that the general tone of an English pub is one of sort of skepticism." Terence: "Well, but aren't crop circles, and Graham Hancock all <b>...</b>
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