My conversation with Martin Ball

[The Fetus Blesser]

6 hours ago, Scholar said:

Yes, I don't think it will be necessarily interesting to go in that direction because Martin seems to be just uninterested in those sorts of things. If he has mastery, it is probably in other, more practical areas around employing psychedelics etc.

I think it's hard to challenge someone like Martin Ball, or even Leo, in an interview, because of how confident they are in their positions, and because of the role they perceive themselves to have within those conversations. It's a teacher-student dynamic, and for there to be a challenging in depth discussion would require a shift to a peer-to-peer dynamic.

 

I think the Pre/Trans fallacy might apply to Martin to some degree, where Martin might be stuck in some of the rationalistic modes. It definitely appears this way when he uses physics talk to ground his understand of energy and then sort of misses the foundations of what those concepts entail.

I disagree, I think it's important and valuable to hear how people make sense of their 5-Meo experiences and how that has affected their worldview, whether or not people have mastery in that particular field. I think it's important people develop a common language about this that we can agree on and is accessible for people who are not experts. But yeah, I would be more interested in hearing Leo and Martin hash these things out but I will certainly do my best to prepare and push back for clarification to the best of my ability.

Edited Thursday at 11:05 PM by The Fetus Blesser