In lieu of my own post, today, I refer readers to Mike Cifone’s recent post over at Entaus, a mix of travelogue and academic after-action-report of his experience at the recent Sol Foundation symposium.
What’s most valuable, to me, is his response to Dr. Peter Skafish’s paper (about two-thirds of the way into the post, beginning with the words “And I would end up in a bit of a mess when I made the utterly foolish mistake…”). The reaction to Cifone’s intervention (aside from its substance) is telling, revealing, as I might put it, a “gnostic” side to the whole conversation, a growing, unbridgeable gap between Experiencers (let alone mere believers), for whom the phenomenon must remain essentially esoteric, and, let’s call them, Researchers, for whom, if the phenomenon is to be resolved by science at all, the question is essentially exoteric.
Readers of Cifone’s post will doubtless find tidbits and nuggets of their own….
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