Exactly - it's jumping the gun in order to fulfill an ideological position. Furthermore, when such experiences are treated as nothing more than the results of brain chemistry, all meaning is stripped of them. Whatever one might learn - which is a tremendous deal, as anyone who's ever competently tackled meditation, lucid dreaming, psychedelics, or similar avenues of exploring the states of consciousness can attest to - becomes nullified by the proposed "subjectivity" of the experience. This, of course, rarely prevents those who have experienced such things from internalising the lessons - however, people who have no experience of such things are often incredibly quick to judge the suggested results as questionable at best, if not simply "wrong" due to their assumed "origin" (internal, rather than external).