See, there's a practical point here which I believe that I did recently try to explain.
In the end, theories are just theories, yakking is just yakking, philosophy is just philosophy. The real question is - what are you going to do about it? (If anything).
Nobody necessarily needs to believe in any specific, particular model of mind or reality, to start working on improving their own lives. And everyone can work on improving their own lives, by changing the ways they think.
What exactly are the kinds of changes that they should make? Well, it's up to them. Everyone has different circumstances. For some, it could be at a basic level of altering their thoughts to instil some good daily habits or eradicate some bad ones.
(Nor does he have to wait for a peer-reviewed scientific paper to be published on his desired or undesired habits).
For others, it could be at a much more advanced level.
My belief - because that has been my experience - is that the person who diligently explores how he can improve his life by changing his thoughts ..... will keep discovering deeper & deeper truths about the amazing nature of his mind and its relationship to his reality.
Doesn't matter whether you start by meditation. Or hypnosis. Or prayer. Or NLP. Or regular, quiet contemplation. Or conventional goal-setting. The important thing is to get started, and keep going.
Then reality will just keep getting better and better.
It has, for me.
(Ipods, Ipods. Who cares about a stupid Ipod? I've done things like manifested a quarter of a million of dollars out of thin air in one lump sum; healed an ICU patient within hours leaving her doctors perplexed etc etc, older forummers already know about it, plus a whole lot of other things much bigger than an Ipod. Bah ....) 