some rationalists try to hold up hallucinations or psychosis or delusions as a checkmate against people's religious experiences
but like, yeah, no shit, sherlock, that's why we take entheogens. if you don't have your own divine madness, plant-based is fine
the real problem here is that the "rationalist" is a person who regards all neurodivergent experiences as noise, devoid of informative content. "hallucination" to them isn't just an explanation, it's a dismissal.
the ultimate implications of the "rationalist" approach to evidence are dire ones, because they lead straight to one of the cornerstones of Western cultural supremacy: the pretence that only a certain few people, gifted with "objectivity", are "rational" and therefore able to give credible testimony about their experiences. they've amassed a galaxy of terms that they use to label anything they wish to be rejected, out of hand, as evidence.
~Chara
