Crow SIster:

You put your finger on one of the great paradoxes of the material interpretation of scientific method. A lot of experiences are reproducible to a significant degree--such as guided meditation leading to uplifting insight among the Buddhist community, or the hemi-synch OOB experiments in Virginia run by Robert Monroe. But the degree of replicability is less, and the replication is still in the reralm of subjective reports, and therefore hard science rules go all awry trying to deal with it.

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