Pseudoscience really irks me. That’s not to say I don’t believe in mystical experiences and ways of knowing beyond rationality. I just don’t confuse the two.
Using scientific principles to describe subjective experiences and nonrational phenomena is sloppy at best and deceptive at worst.
Spiritual principles are well-described using spiritual language, leaving the quantum field theory on the chalkboard, where it belongs. So if Joe Dispenza could just…please not. (For all I know, his meditation techniques might be totally baller, but I can’t get past the pseudoscience to actually hear him.)
I confess, sometimes I mess with new agers by telling them I have a PhD in “Crystal Energy Physics”, which is literally true – my thesis was on x-ray diffraction (energy physics) through bent Laue silicon crystals.
Like a proper scientist, I’m uncertain about phenomena that lie outside the limitations of present-day measuring instruments. And, I’ve experienced enough weird-ass shit and heard enough weird-ass stories from reliable witnesses to believe there is more in heaven & earth than is dreamt of in our philosophies.
“Not-sure-about-the-existence-of” is not the same as “Sure-about-the-non-existence-of”; the former is agnostic, the latter is religious. Meanwhile, many of the greatest physicists of the 20th century were practitioners of Eastern mysticism – so I consider myself in good company.
It’s a vast and weird universe, and to think we’ve mapped and measured it all is simply arrogant. I think it’s far more interesting to let the mysteries be mysteries until we understand them.