057 - Can we call conscientiology a science? with Alexandre Zaslavsky

I invited today’s guest, Alexandre Zaslavsky, because he regularly publishes and speaks about the question of science in the kind of self-applied consciousness research that conscientiology promotes, or for that matter any other discipline promotes that purports to explore states of consciousness or bioenergy in a scientific way. Yoga for example has called itself a science of consciousness ever since it was introduced to the Western world in the late 19th century.

So the question is, how do we apply scientific principles to what are ostensibly subjective, intra-psychic experiences? Over the years I have noticed in myself a definite resistance every time I hear people refer to conscientiology and projectiology (or Yoga) as “science”. Is it appropriate to call something science that is not based on any objective evidence? And that does not even attempt to establish such evidence? Sure, if you have had out-of-body experiences you can have evidence for yourself. But this is not something you can demonstrate to anybody else. Does science not demand us to provide objective evidence? I think this is a common understanding we have of science, and although I know that science is not necessarily about evidence, but about models, hypotheses and refutation, I am also influenced by this popular image of it. So I really appreciated the opportunity to explore these issues with Alexandre. Topics we talk about include the role of experiments in our own personal evolution and what distinguishes experiments from experiences, the role of consciential laboratories and what it means to make our life a laboratory of our own existence, and ultimately of course whether it is appropriate to call conscientiology a science. I hope you enjoy the conversation.

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