My Best Comment: “It is unclear what a correlation between 3-indolebutyric acid (IBA) and MEQ [Mystical Experiences Q] scores might mean, because IBA is plant hormone in the auxin family, and a plasma and urinary tryptophan-related metabolite related to metabolic and skin diseases in humans.”

Sounds quite interesting! I hope the recording will be available, because it’s at 3am for me

Believe it or not, it was published in Communications Biology, a Nature-family journal with an open review policy

I’ve seen videos by adherents of new age spirituality blaming themselves for their inability to achieve a Kulandini awakening

His retreats are like scenes out of an evangelical faith healing tent - the lame can now walk, the blind can see, cancer is cured

...and he hung around with Jeffrey Epstein. Although he claimed he didn't understand why all the other profs thought Epstein was an intellectual

Francis Crick was a eugenicist but also

“…would be a good place to start…” NO.

You’re absolutely right. Why did Science publish this??

That‘s insane! Not as bad at my journal, but the number of poor quality and off-topic submissions has increased. Plus, it’s incredibly hard to find reviewers.

Absolutely.

How (and why) do they devote so much intellectual effort to an impossible future? So they can ignore the suffering of living humans and enrich themselves? what a false, pathetic narrative

Very exciting work! Congratulations!!

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