2 claims in “philosophy, spirituality, psychology”
Compassion is different from kindness or pity: compassion arises when you recognize that suffering is not 'their' suffering but shared universal suffering; kindness and pity arise from the ego recognizing another's separate pain.
The experience of psychedelic states in 1961 revealed a fundamental truth about consciousness: there are legitimate, equally valid planes of reality beyond ordinary waking consciousness that can be directly experienced, contradicting the materialist assumption that the waking plane is the only real one.