Kindly read the whole thread, responses to understand that it is a limitation of science that it has not been able to create any suitable measuring instruments to see / measure /quantify/etc of these dimensions of reality.
My guess is that the mental sciences will undergo a revolution of sorts spurred on by discoveries in the next few decades. The only reason that some think of this facet of the psyche as being mystical is simply because of their own inexperience that has never extended appreciably beyond the confines of their highly limited belief structures about reality and what "reality" entails. Explanations of reality are fairly routine when one builds a strong enough box to keep them in.
The inner thrill that you get when diving, do you experience it or not? if so, can that *THRILL* be measured. Can it be said that those *thrills* are not a part of your own reality?? One may say they are subjective. Exactly even subjective reality is a reality where the human being in the perceiver. He perceives both subjective and objective reality.
Yes, ZenZero, this is always true but I think what is needed is for some brilliant neurologists to consider working on their own beliefs from a subjective standpoint. Beliefs by their very nature are not something that lend themselves to empirical examination, though one can track their results easily enough. My thinking is that if trained scientists explored possibilities in consciousness directly, documenting every step in line with the scientific method we could eventually find distinct patterns that can be duplicated and thereby given to subjective verification.
Though it is anathema to the scientific method these are areas where Dr. Jekyll must necessarily explore the possibility of Mr. Hyde. The alternative is that we content ourselves with the "outside looking in", "hide and seek" techniques and keep our fingers crossed.
One can be reasoned with the mind other cannot as it opens only when the mind shuts like when you are diving you have no other thoughts except the thrill of the moment and so you go up the sky every given opportunity.
UNDERSTAND that!
This is the part that I refuse to buy into. I believe it is only because we have accepted that we can never describe these things that constantly forces the possibility of suitable explanations away from ourselves much like an ever receding shadow. In effect we do not believe detailed explanations can be made and so we are unable to form any kind of explanations. As usual, reality simply conforms to our perceptions and the cycle continues.