My personal feeling is that when some sort of spiritual practice succeeds I almost forget why I did it in the first place because it was so low level and tightly bound to my experiencing of reality that it couldn't really be described (or remembered) in words.
And then if it succeeds in eliminating like a bad aura that envelops each moment of perception, you almost forget it ever existed and then one can throw the baby out with the bathwater, stop practicing altogether what brought one back up and then beyond to the level of pride where one can dismiss it all, only to three years later or so need to adopt a certain level of spiritual practice whether that's contemplative or practical or community-oriented.
As criticism it's completely valid on a personal plane and multiple times we can all see we've had to dismiss ideas as not fitting our lives anymore, but I also can't help but notice a certain negative tint to the entire article and leaps in logic in the criticism. This is obviously indicative that maybe the author had their fair fill of fruit and on a slightly filled stomach moves on to science etc. But it's not a debunk or a representation of the faith and practices beyond the personal journey of the author.
And then if it succeeds in eliminating like a bad aura that envelops each moment of perception, you almost forget it ever existed and then one can throw the baby out with the bathwater, stop practicing altogether what brought one back up and then beyond to the level of pride where one can dismiss it all, only to three years later or so need to adopt a certain level of spiritual practice whether that's contemplative or practical or community-oriented.
As criticism it's completely valid on a personal plane and multiple times we can all see we've had to dismiss ideas as not fitting our lives anymore, but I also can't help but notice a certain negative tint to the entire article and leaps in logic in the criticism. This is obviously indicative that maybe the author had their fair fill of fruit and on a slightly filled stomach moves on to science etc. But it's not a debunk or a representation of the faith and practices beyond the personal journey of the author.