Tucker jumps from outside feedback to feedback from skeptics. Why isn’t feedback from a meditation community sufficient? Martin’s subjects were certified enlightened, so apparently it isn’t, but a meditation community should have a lot more experience with failure modes.
In part he was probably just expressing the point humorously as is his style, in part for most Westerners it’s probably easier to be friends with skeptics than with meditators with the right competencies. (Especially since even knowing who would have the right competencies is highly nontrivial question.)
Tucker jumps from outside feedback to feedback from skeptics. Why isn’t feedback from a meditation community sufficient? Martin’s subjects were certified enlightened, so apparently it isn’t, but a meditation community should have a lot more experience with failure modes.
In part he was probably just expressing the point humorously as is his style, in part for most Westerners it’s probably easier to be friends with skeptics than with meditators with the right competencies. (Especially since even knowing who would have the right competencies is highly nontrivial question.)