Regardless of value, the experiences Crowley reports are very far from a free lunch—they take a lot of time, effort, and careful arrangement.
Don’t think of them as knowledge, think of them as skills—like learning to read or do back of the envelope calculations. They enable certain ways of acquiring or using knowledge. We don’t know that the knowledge is at all unique to the mode.
Regardless of value, the experiences Crowley reports are very far from a free lunch—they take a lot of time, effort, and careful arrangement.
Don’t think of them as knowledge, think of them as skills—like learning to read or do back of the envelope calculations. They enable certain ways of acquiring or using knowledge. We don’t know that the knowledge is at all unique to the mode.