Ep. 12 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Higher States of Consciousness, Part 2 - YouTube
He is using the terminology he’s developed, so I can’t say how much sense it will make to you, but I like the technical explanation at the end of this one. The last 5 minutes.
He’s dealing with the question of how we can evaluate the science we have on self-transcendence and gaining wisdom. We can show it happens, but the data is incomplete and the results are not consistent. Some people do guided meditation with psychedelics and have insights that help them overcome their addictions. Others do it and say aliens have infiltrated our government. Those people come here, right?
Before that, he discusses how we determine what’s plausible, and how that results in science filtering out the ridiculous, and thus, we can’t claim certainty. So, the alien believer is, in a way, right, their theory is possible. I challenge that based on possibility being very different from plausibility. What this series is trying to do is bring up some technologies, that have been set aside as implausible, and look at recent studies of them to create a rational description of a system to increase wisdom.
In many ways, he’s responding to this