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Question: whats your experience with stuff that seems new agy at first look, like yoga, meditation and so on. Anything worth trying?
Case in point: i read in Feynmans book about deprivation tanks, and recently found out that they are available in bigger cities. (Berlin, germany in my case.) will try and hopefully enjoy that soon. Sadly those places are run by new-age folks that offer all kinds of strange stuff, but that might not take away from the experience of floating in a sensory empty space.
Hard to say - even New Agey stuff evolves. (Not many followers of Reich pushing their copper-lined closets these days.)
Generally, background stuff is enough. There's no shortage of hard scientific evidence about yoga or meditation, for example. No need for heuristics there. Similarly there's some for float tanks. In fact, I'm hard pressed to think of any New Agey stuff where there isn't enough background to judge it on its own merits.