(August 21, 2024 at 5:56 pm)Sheldon Wrote: unless you can accurately define "spiritual" and objectively evidence it exists outside of the human imagination, can you do this?
In your epistemology, do you accept intersubjective evidence? Sometimes intersubjective evidence can seem quite persuasive, though (I suspect) you would not consider it objective.
For example, if 9999 people out of 10000 people who take a drug report that it makes them feel happy, that seems like fairly good evidence. In a way it's subjective, because we have no objective way of observing or quantifying happiness. It is purely self-reported. Yet the fact that many people have the same experience tends to lend credibility to the claim.
The fact that certain yogic practices have been reported to yield certain results for a very long time seems like evidence to me.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/husserl/#EmpIntLif
