I got into a discussion not long ago on
Lashtal about the “method of science” in relation to Thelema. One poster
suggested that since the goal of attainment is supra-rational, science might
not be that much help in attaining that goal. By the “method of science,” the
poster said that he meant things like the “application of the scientific
method, including experimentation, controls, validation of results - and not
including belief, hope, wishful thinking, etc.”
However, I went on to point out that
this description of the “method of science” is at the very least deeply
misleading, and it feeds into a common delusion held by people who style
themselves “scientific illuminists”: that their religious practices are somehow
not religious practices but science.
In fact, such would-be "scientific illuminists" are not practicing
anything remotely like science. Instead, they practice something much more akin to cargo cult
science, in which they ape the *form* of science without understanding the
*substance* of the matter.
Read on for my post.
