Steve, no offense taken, on the contrary, I always appreciate a healthy criticism of myself.
My reference to those who believe they are Napoleon or Christ is strictly relevant to those who recount they've been abducted by aliens. The former are sure they are those historical figures but we know they cannot be. The latter are convinced they were abducted by the aliens but, even though we are not exactly sure they were not, by inference we know that some persons are strongly delusional in their beliefs, so we cannot accept them on the word, unless evidence is provided.
It's interesting that you say I'm a born skeptic since it's just the other way around. I used to believe in everything, even in an indiscriminate way. Whereas now I'm more like Sri Yukteswar, after 40 years of applying scientific principles I've almost become a logical machine. Sort of professional deformation.
There are many concepts and ideas that can only be proven by our own spiritual search. Science has its own limitations in the sense that many spiritual truths may never be proven in a science lab. They can only be proven in our own personal soul searching.
I agree here. But at the same time I feel mandated to apply my God-given logic and discrimination. Of course my very few objections can belong solely to the physical realm, not the metaphysical.
So, if for example, I criticize the yugas model, I only have elements to criticize the alleged existence of a sun dual. I do not criticize the whole model, maybe the solar system rotates around some other stellar object, but it is very, very difficult that a sun dual escaped the astronomists thru the recent decades.
I'll start a thread on an episode of an astronomy podcast on binary systems I just listened to. It shows how unlikely it si that the sun is part of a binary system.
