My model has been that contemplate practice can make you:
realize that you’ve never actually experienced an objective reality, and that everything you’ve experienced is manufactured by your mind
realize that much of what you believe about the world is just social conditoning and belief in authority rather than anything that you would have investigated yourself
experience weird things, such as realistic hallucinations of talking with spirits
If your previous belief in science has basically been social conditioning or “science as attire”, then once that social conditoning is stripped away, you might no longer have belief in it. And if your belief in science has been mostly social conditioning and you don’t know anything about philosophy of science, how to evaluate evidence etc., then this means that you’ve just had your existing structure of justification stripped away with nothing sane to replace it. This has the consequence that you can start making (and believing in) all kinds of crazy claims.
My model has been that contemplate practice can make you:
realize that you’ve never actually experienced an objective reality, and that everything you’ve experienced is manufactured by your mind
realize that much of what you believe about the world is just social conditoning and belief in authority rather than anything that you would have investigated yourself
experience weird things, such as realistic hallucinations of talking with spirits
If your previous belief in science has basically been social conditioning or “science as attire”, then once that social conditoning is stripped away, you might no longer have belief in it. And if your belief in science has been mostly social conditioning and you don’t know anything about philosophy of science, how to evaluate evidence etc., then this means that you’ve just had your existing structure of justification stripped away with nothing sane to replace it. This has the consequence that you can start making (and believing in) all kinds of crazy claims.