I suppose he has a mastery over astral projection and been to the realm of ascended masters, has met many masters in his life,had astral initiations from them...so doesn’t he qualify to be an ascended master.in our country we call them jivanmukta one who has transcended this reality/mastered nirvana state during his lifetime without dying.we have so many so called masters like Sadguru Sri Sri Ravishankar Yogananda etc.