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How to separate spiritual practice from pseudoscientific claims

My yoga teacher talks about energy healing and chakras like they are scientific facts and I want the spiritual practice without the fake science.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire for transcendent experience becomes entangled with the need for empirical credibility in ways that compromise both.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Religion and science — the examined relationship?”

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