There are no higher emotions/values

[Transcended Dimensions]

I would metaphorically describe positive emotions as some divine life force or flow of divine energy within our conscious being.  This divine life force makes us alive on the inside since it makes our whole entire reality perceived as beautiful, good, and worth living for.  In other words, it transforms our whole entire reality into something amazing, beautiful, and great.  No other mental state can do this.  All other mental states in of themselves are "dead" and "empty" since they do not do this.  I would also describe positive emotions as being a divine inner light or inner fruit.  If you hear the word 'fruitful," then that means filled with inner positivity.  It means you are in a mental state where you truly experience positivity in your life which is no different than, again, saying that you are perceiving things from a positive perspective (i.e. perceiving things as joyful, beautiful, and good). 

When you feel positive emotions, it's as though you are filled with the force of the light and, when you feel negative emotions such as misery and despair, it's as though you are filled with the force of darkness.  The goal is to become the being of light by pursing the force of light to make your life beautiful and to avoid the inner darkness which makes your life bad, horrible, and disgusting.  When we lose our ability to feel positive emotions, it's as though we have become dead on the inside since we lose that force of light within us.  Also, songs have two aspects to them which would be the lyrics and the emotion.  If you just had the lyrics without the emotion, then those words would be spoken like a machine.  These words need something more in order for them to possess true beauty, joy, and greatness.  They require a profoundly beautiful, joyful, divine life force to them. 

This life force breathes the power of joy, beauty, and greatness to these lyrics.  That life force would be the positive emotions.  Lyrics also require the force of darkness in order for them to possess the true power of misery, despair, hate, and suffering.  That force of darkness would be the negative emotions.  But if you had the emotion without the lyrics or let's pretend the lyrics were gibberish, then those songs would still possess the power of beauty, joy, misery, suffering, etc.  This proves here that it's about the emotion and not just the words alone.  If we as human beings lived our lives by words alone without our emotions, then we would be like droids.  We would be dead on the inside and words, our character, intellect, and morality alone would not bring our lives any real value.  Our emotions are that higher power or force within us that brings the value to life in our lives.

Intellect, morality, and character is just words, intentions, and ideas in our minds.  None of these things can allow me to perceive/experience the sheer beauty and joy my positive emotions have brought my life and neither can it allow me to experience what I've experienced through my miserable struggles.  Those hopeless and miserable states I've been through were such horrible states that no words, ideas, etc. can allow me to experience something so horrible.  Lastly, as for your question, people can act as though certain things are real and claim these things are real.  For example, people have acted and claimed Thor was real.  But that doesn't mean Thor was real.  So, just because people act as though value independent of positive emotions is real and claim it's real does not mean it's actually real.  You cannot trust a person's claim just because they act as though it's real and claim it's real.  That's the reason why I cannot trust people who claim that they perceived their lives as something beautiful and great despite their misery and inability to feel positive emotions.

You’re a nut job.  Go peddle your Deepak Chopra BS elsewhere.  You clearly aren’t interested in actual discussion.

Well, you can forget about that if you want. Besides, it was just a metaphor anyway.  Instead, let me just say this.  Here is an exercise I would want other people to perform.  This would actually be a great example for people who take psychedelic drugs.  If a person took a psychedelic drug and experienced the most profoundly beautiful bliss of his life, then he might report that it was a profoundly beautiful experience that was out of this world.  If that same person later struggled with the worst misery of his life and did something with his life such as being there for his family or contributing to the world despite that horrible misery, then he might report that this was also a profoundly beautiful experience in his life even though he was unable to feel positive emotions. 

I would want that person to actually think twice here.  In other words, I would want him to compare the two mental states.  If he pays close attention, then he should come to realize that mental state #2 (his intellectual/moral based values) is literally nothing compared to mental state #1 (the profoundly beautiful bliss he felt from being on that psychedelic drug).  Once he discovers this, then this should reveal that positive emotions are the real perception of value while our intellect, character, and morality alone is not the real perception of value. 

But if he still says to me that mental state #2 is the real perception of value in his life and that it's something far greater than mental state #1, then I have no way of knowing whether he is delusional and in denial or if he really is telling the truth.  I am not inside his mind and I can't experience what he is experiencing to find out.  As for me, I have payed attention to my mental states and, for me, my positive emotions are the real perception of beauty and joy while my intellect is not. 

One last thing here.  I don't think that both mental state #1 and mental state #2 are the real perception of value.  Only one mental state can be the real perception of value and I think it's mental state #1 (the positive emotions along with the negative emotions since they allow us to perceive bad value).  By the way.  Perceiving and experiencing are the same thing.  If you perceive the color red, then you are experiencing the color red and vice versa.  So, when you perceive value, you are experiencing value and vice versa.  Another example would be, if you experience hunger and thirst, then you are perceiving hunger and thirst and vice versa.