Joseph Maynor

This is a great question. Maybe someone here can answer it. I'm not sure.

This is why I like to say it is important to meet people in person. Especially nowadays when we don't even know who we are dealing with online. You get a better sense of someone when you sit down with them for dinner or meet with them over a course of days.

I haven't watched any of his content except this one video.

Watch this video carefully. He is very clear about what his purpose is, at least at this time.

He said he is acting out mental illness to educate people about mental illness.

Definitely.

He may have had mental illness unfortunately.

This video I said was tough to watch, that was not negative, I saw that he was earnest in wanting to improve.

Some of this has to be attributed to mental illness, although I am not qualified to judge that.

What is a lost soul?

The issue is you haven't had the direct experience of the psychedelics to judge this.

I didn't mean this harshly. But psychedelics are one of those things where nothing is like it. I try to stay away from this topic, but it really should not be avoided. I understand that there is a concern about misuse and so on. I am sensitive to this. To be truthful to my path, psychedelics were important.

Realization of the I Am.

It is Self-realization.

Definitely.

It is hard to judge psychedelics if you haven't done them.

I'm not seeing how this conclusion follows.

It was shown to me on psychedelics. Shankara does a good job pointing to it in words, but even that has limitations IMO. The Self has to be experienced for it to go beyond words. Words turn into thoughts and beliefs and doctrine which can only point to the Self.

It is interesting how we are trained to talk this way in University.

No self is a tricky teaching and needs some caveats.

Okay. Then I am glad I had this conversation with you because you don't understand what I am pointing to yet.

What I said is that the I Am is not going to mean much without Self-realization.

I did not intend what I said to be taken that way. No problem.

They are doing this to create a business and to make money.

To be honest, without work with psychedelics it is going to be very difficult to awaken.