No, it turns out that the adherents of the religion of "love thy neighbor" and "it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God" have no problem with our economic system.
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?
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.
See this article by one of the world’s leading researcher in the field: http://pharmrev.aspetjournals.org/content/71/3/316?fbclid=Iw...
The section ‘what about the woo’ in particular talks about the problem.
I think psychedelics can be very positive, but they can also damage your ability to reason.
As a temporary tradeoff this may well be a reasonable price to pay for relief from trauma.
It’s a red flag when you start proclaiming that psychedelics are the door to experienced of fundamental truth and you are unable to reason about it.
This kind of thinking is a symptom that you haven’t addressed the side effects the psychedelics have had on you.
Here is another extremely respected commentator who expresses skepticism: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/10/ssc-journal-club-relax...
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.
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.