Weird that it requires a special compound to give you a direct experience of this.
You’d think that if the point of life was selflessness and love, this would be more obvious.
Also, what do you think of the people whose medicine comes from the coca plant, who have direct experience that the point of life is greed and self-satisfaction?
the concept of "a special compound" is something you made up.
It takes a special compound to experience numbness of your teeth for dental work, does that mean the numbness is something that takes away from the value of the dental work or the protection from pain?
Watch the videos that correct the stigma of psychedelics and see the human history of them.
It sounds like you have no experience with cocaine, and no experience with psychedelics ...
I can understand this position coming from ignorance, so I don't blame you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TazyFTavMyA
I have experience of both, especially psychedelics, and I am familiar with and have been involved in research on the topic.
Secondly, your reasoning is clearly impaired because you drew a conclusion for which you obviously don’t have any facts to support.
Thirdly, you lept to defend an ungrounded claim that a particular drug experience gives access to spiritual truth. Temporary distortions of experience can be valuable but to quote from a famous drug culture movie, “why trust one drug and not another?”.
This is an extraordinary claim that requires serious examination.
Your reflexive defense suggests that you have lost sight of this.
These kinds of failures of reasoning are attributed to psychedelics by even the most optimistic of researchers.
Like I said, this also appears to be the result of you not validating things in your direct experience and instead relying on dogma.
This is an example of false skepticism, rather than True skepticism.
More info if you're open-minded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kzZdps9PG4
Do you dismiss Scott Alexander as a false skeptic also?
Also - that dude in your video is presenting a false dichotomy and no true Scotsman fallacy in order to market himself an authority on personal development. I’d be careful with that stuff because it’s classic cult leader behavior. Having a ready dismissal for threatening ideas generally does not make us smarter.
Having looked at your bio I feel compassion for you, since I think you are sincere, and it seems like your desire for enlightenment and healing are being exploited.
You're obviously ignorant to the material, there are 2 videos that expound on what cults are and how cults work. You wont have a proper understanding until you can try on the content for more than just a few hours, with the attitude of open mindedness. Yes, I will dismiss any arguments that are obviously false skepticism.
You have to validate psychedelics in your direct experience.
I appreciate your compassion, but I implore you to examine the implicit metaphysics and default position you are coming from.
“You have to validate psychedelics in your direct experience”
Can you not consider the possibility that I have done so, and I have examined the implicit metaphysics and have come to the conclusion that the experience offers a valuable perspective but not one which is privileged in its truth?
You seem unable to consider this possibility, instead only being able to imagine that because my view is not what you think it should be, I must be ignorant.
You’d think that if the point of life was selflessness and love, this would be more obvious.
Also, what do you think of the people whose medicine comes from the coca plant, who have direct experience that the point of life is greed and self-satisfaction?