Don't think I'm all for the standard philosophical view point because I think that what's called philosophy now days isn't philosophy at all
If I had to give it a name I would say it's a philosophical quoting game wherein the person that can quote the most dead philosophers wins because that's all that ever seems to happen is a bunch of people referring to some dead guy from way back when
And that's not philosophy
The people being quoted if we observe how they lived life we will see that they didn't reference old dead philosophers from the past when answering questions, no what they did was they went out and lived life they went out and discovered the answers for themselves
This is also why I find it insane that a person can go to college and get a degree in philosophy
How on earth is it possible to go sit in a class room and read what other people have done and then get the title of masters in philosophy
It's like some sort of sick joke because you can't understand life by reading about it
As for 9x he is divorced from logic and reality
I fully understand his point because it's not unique to him there are eastern belief systems that use that same style Allen watts covers several different practices that see the world in that same way
I just find it to be unbalanced and dangerous to live in the imagination that much because the imagination will end up being the dominant awareness and when that happens the person will never know it and will be clueless as to what's actually real and what's just a fabrication.