Wow. Okay, I'll go into MUCH more excruciating detail. My intention was not to make it worse than it is. Folks on the political stage love to talk about things that ignite passions and have little to do with original (regardless of importance) issues. I felt that analogy was valid. And just like the political stage, even though I am a player here, the whole thing does get a bit tiresome and depressing over time. Just my opinion/observation. It was a minor issue that got blown into something major and that apparently lost us another member. Oh well.
First and foremost - I was in error in not carefully wording my reply to indicate it is all just personal opinion. Inappropriate and bad attitude to make such sweeping statements. So, here we go:
Original poster went a bit against established Nexus etiquette and culture and exhibited an interesting attitude. Probably should have been ignored to have fun with his stream of consciousness while folks replied to well thought-out posts. But that did not happen and hindsight is frequently 20-20.
Uncle Knucles's reply, while appropriate in content in my opinion, was worded with extreme hostility. What we used to in the 1980's call, "fighting words." I have no other feelings about Art's reply than that. Whatever is between Uncle Knucles and myself is basically a conflict of personal styles. Without knowing a thing, I deeply suspect he and I have had some similar life experiences. Also, without knowing a thing, I suspect that he and I, if we spent an afternoon together outside of the Nexus context would laugh so hard together that a hospital visit might possibly be necessary. I suspect many things. It is irrelevant. Our interactions will only be here on Nexus. My reply was not aimed specifically at Uncle Knucles. But, please, feel free to believe whatever you want.
From my perspective, Doc Savant's reply was a combination of "Doc Savant meet Uncle Knucles . . . " and . . . .? The ? because he mentions endlessness and does not back anything up with a quote. Also, there is a lot of anger and general apparent (again, my perspective) hostility towards perceived Nexus hierarchy. Also, more than a little ignorance (e.g. thinking that the titles like "Voyager" had to do with hierarchy rather than post numbers).
For anyone who thinks endlessness is arrogant, I would like to say that my perspective is this: You may be possibly mistaking arrogance for real experience and caring. He has been here a long time, has seen a lot; he is very savvy and experienced, within the educational, psychedelic and real life realms. He knows and loves DMT Nexus. His responses tend to be very patient and try to help. BUT, his responses are sometimes like the responses of a psychotherapist who probes deeply with a client - they can elicit what in myself I can only describe as projections and transference responses.
Doc Savant, I do realize there has been some negativity recently. I also realize that things go on at Nexus that are tweaky and funky. Hey, it's all good. It's not our website. Sometimes breaks can be good to give a more appropriate perspective on things. I mean, really, sorry if I set off a flurry of responses, but seriously overrated. We are talking about a molecule. We are talking about a website. Right? People will do what they want. You can stay or you can go. If you go I will miss you. If you stay, I hope that you will come to see over time that there are larger patterns at play here than seem to be immediately apparent.
By showing me how easy it is within a minute or so to completely and utterly destroy all of my perceptual modalities relative to the consensual reality tunnel, speaking personally, I have found reality to be overrated.
I have also come to recently realize that for me personally DMT is a very powerful medicine that can bring to the fore material and emotions (insight) from various levels of my consciousness. This material can be personally positive/beneficial or negative/hurtful. I am coming to believe, speaking personally, that unless there is a very active personal crisis reason to DIG for this material, that this type of insight is in fact OVERRATED. There is a reason my consciousness has ordered this material into the various levels that help to make up my (dys)functional whole.
And now onto enlightenment. You better believe I think it is overrated! Nihilistic. Whatever - you will believe what you want, I know that. Anyone who claims to be enlightened or understand true enlightenment is a charlatan in my book, a scammer or just plain deluded. People are people. We repeat the same mistakes down through the millenia. Just look at history across cultures. We will say what we must and do what we want. In my opinion, enlightenment will always be an overrated and/or scam and/or delusional concept until (if ever) we somehow transcend (engineer ourselves out of) the human body.
And finally, Uncle Knucles - regarding the advice to get out (of the one bedroom ghetto apartment) more. Gee, thank you very much. I will definately take that under advisement now that the weather has improved. Clearly factors like arthritis, violent crime and lack of income over about $20K per year (takes money to travel away from the ghetto) play no part in this at all. I take a daily walk. Sometimes it is nerve-wracking because of the folks I encounter on the street, but it's good to see the sun. Frankly, I cannot afford to do much more.
I sincerely do hope I have made myself clear.
These are just one woman's personal opinions. I appreciate having a forum on which to express them.
