I don’t think science claims any “hard truths”. More like, “to the best of our knowledge.” But I’m still not ready to believe that consciousness is anything more than a simple function of the brain. My experiences were a series of minor psychotic episodes that played out over a seven year period. I was lucky that I was able to leave the cult I had joined unharmed. A lot of people aren’t so lucky.

Science doesn’t have all the answers and admits that it never will. But I think it is also wrong to take that fact and claim that because science doesn’t have all the answers that the doors to any possibility are now open. Apologies if you find this offensive, but the moronic Christians claiming Jesus, if he even existed, once walked with dinosaurs use the same tactics. You’ve obviously put a lot more time and research into it then the ridiculous Fundamentalists, but to be honest it isn’t that much different from the stuff I was reading by writers like Fritjof Capra, Charles Eisenstein, and of course the grand high Poombah of metaphysical gibberish slingers Deepak Chopra.

We all have our personal delusional systems. For now I going to stick with science and neurology. As far as I can tell it has the best and most convincing explanations for what reality may or may not be.