Hyperspace Fool,
We are humans. Do you not think even with all your experience, you have limits? How can you claim to know what hyperspace is, the whole thing? It's not about being me or being you, it's about us being humans, with limits. You too are fallible, you too can have optical illusions which can fool you (just like the model you use to interpret hyperspace experience can be wrong), you too will have bad knees one day and you too will die, no matter how many lucid dreams you can have a night or how many shamans you've met in life, or if youre a shaman yourself.
There was this amazonian shaman I was working with, who had a 94 year old father, a master shaman. This old shaman said that even shamans themselves don't really know what these other dimensions are, that they just learn to navigate it and some tricks and strategies that can help, learned from experience or passed down through generations, that they feel they have a mission to make a certain bridge between the worlds, but that they are not fully aware of what it all is, ultimately. I find it ironic that this guy, an amazing person who's life was dedicated to these altered states, was humble enough to confess this, and yet you claim to know everything about hyperspace??
If you want to believe that you know the answers, you are free to keep your beliefs if they dont hurt others and arent being imposed, but accept that others might not share them, and just because they dont share them does not mean they are wrong, harmful, materialists, rape-victim non-believers and offenders or stupid jungle explorers..
Which brings me to this whole materialist thing. It's funny that you keep equating me (and anyone who disagrees with you) to being a materialist, when im certainly not at all. I have several times stated in this forum about science's limits. I just dont constantly explain my existential views, also because it's pretty complex to write, but I certainly do not claim that the universe is only the observable universe or that science knows everything or similar. I have had several really significant life experiences that have shown me otherwise too.
Regarding the people that messaged you and the mod that cant speak out, Im sorry that people feel this way. Mods aren't perfect either, we are all people, but we're certainly open to suggestions. It's not like I or others here have a vested interest in materialism. We are merely trying to keep an attitude based on scientific knowledge in the areas where scientific knowledge pertains, because we have seen so many problems with a less than critical mystical attitude elsewhere. Nobody gets paid for this job and we neither do it because we feel great with the power. Its impossible to keep everybody happy, there is always someone complaining and there's also people thanking. So what do we do, who do we follow? Im completely open to suggestions. Did you ever try being a moderator? It's not very easy I tell you. If you want a mystical forum, there are several others that are more appropriate I think.
You can form any image you'd like about me and how bad I am, partial, non-expert, flawed, materialist, doing harm to the community. I have my clear conscience about my actions.
I agree with you that there is sometimes a scientific arrogance in this forum, but at the same time there is a mystic arrogance too. I have mediated several discussions here, pmed people, tried to find a mid point. Unlike what you think, I am not sided with the materialistic viewpoint. I merely hope that whoever expresses themselves do it respectfully, accepting other viewpoints instead of imposing that they know The Truth. And if its something that is under scientific knowledge's scope, you can be sure we will require this to be understood. For example, no matter what someone's demons or angels tell them and how sure they are of their power, we will not allow people to suggest to others to put fire near flammable solvents. Facts are facts, beliefs are beliefs.
I conceed to your point that it would be less partial if I did both sides of complains publicly or privately, and I have done so in different occasions. But here in this thread I indeed talked to you instead of to Art. Which leads me to Art.
You know when Art was to become a moderator, we have had a talk before because we knows his personality and way of talking, its impossible to not notice it. He has a very unique style of writting and being, and many people wont take it well, his no-compromise style. But you see, we decided he should come in and im glad for it. He is an amazing person doing a lot of hard work for this community, and he very often will say things that many think but wouldnt dare saying. Im very thankful for his presence, and you can be sure if I dont agree with how he said something, if I feel the line was crossed between "harsh but true" to "unnecessarily disrespectful", i will talk to him, as I have in the past. In this very thread he appologized himself for his first post to you. He is a human, who knows he can be mistaken, unlike you it seems.
He for sure often thought about just not being a mod because of the reaction of some people to him, but Im glad he's n the team would hope he just keeps being as he is, and keeps being open to admiting when he is wrong or over does his words.
In any case, art, please do try to keep a respectful tone even though you strongly disagree with HF. If you feel you can add something constructive, please do. If not, better not let your emotions run free on this discussion, its not constructive and will just further deteriorate the atmosphere.
HF, I dont know if you realized it but you arent the first person to come here in the Nexus claiming to know everything about hyperspace (or the universe). This is not the kind of place for this kind of know-it-all attitude though. You're free to teach your Truth elsewhere, here we all stand equally in face of the Unknown.
You have gone back to using the appeal to majority. Yeah of course we are all minority, havent you noticed? You included. How many of all these spiritual people you talk about would approve of your poly drug use, as Ive asked before? Not many.. Does that mean you are wrong? No.. It just means you are you, and you dont have to follow the dogmas of the majority.
Lastly, regarding "spirits" and 'the spirit molecule", I already addressed this point with an example from an amazonian ethnic group, how they interpret the word spirit differently than what you seem to. Just because someone wrote "spirit" doesnt mean the meaning will be the same one you have, and neither the end conclusions which you derive about how one must act in life and in hyperspace.
I think one interesting constructive outcome that could end out of this discussion is if you would take a look at the health and safety sections and the FAQ entry about dark dmt trips and would suggest how we can improve it, from a multi-sided angle. So that we work together, instead of against each other. What do you think? Thousands of people read those pages so the best it is, the more we are helping others around the world.