How to handle the monk is simple, arrest him for assualt and battery. No woo woo needed to answer that question. And Optimistic Nihlism makes a lot of sense to me. Everything is meaningless, but as aware beings we can give meaing to our own lives.

The difference between science and all the esoteric woo woo traditons is that at least sceince is willing to admit that it doesn't have all the answers and in fact realizes it never will.

If the woo woo esoteric cults could present even a shred of credible evidence that their gibberish was actually real science would take them seriously.