those of us working in transformational spaces must become explicit advocates for values-realism: the understanding that goodness, truth, and beauty are not human projections onto a neutral universe but real dimensions of existence we can learn to perceive and participate in directly. This isn't a private philosophical preference—it's something we need to be willing to say out loud, to teach, to build our work upon. It’s simply not enough to offer better techniques or better technologies—not more refined meditation protocols, not low-frequency ultrasound, not more precisely formulated psychedelics. We must restore the ontological foundations that make any technique or technology capable of producing authentic transformation rather than more sophisticated self-improvement.