First of all, thank you for sharing the lectures. No one said before that the presentation graphics were really neat as well
Reading your observations and the thread so far, I wanted to leave a couple thoughts about this:
laughingcat wrote:I'd be interested in whether any of you think that our technological society and exposure to ideas about alien visitors influences the appearance of hypertechnological advanced intelligences in the DMT world
One way I like to think about the psychedelic dimensions, about hyperspace, is as a manifestation of one possible nature of reality - not as matter/energy, but as information. Information that flows between dimensions, and DMT might be the most simple technology we have available to take a look at the cogs and wheels of the process.
Whether archetypes and mythological figures, facts of the mind, are completely initiated in outer dimensions or colonize them from our dimension instead is probably an egg/chicken type of question and it might have no definitive answer. But nevertheless there are many examples of how the cultural setting of the traveler permeates hyperspace. Just look beyond the DMT flash in our culture and think of the ayahuasca experiences in the amazonian people. Or even all the reports from salvia-space (and most likely from DMT-space as well) that talk about cartoons.
We might think that describing androids that look like a cross between crash test dummies and stormtroopers from the Star Wars saga, or and endless row of Felix-the-Cats, actually accounts for our own human decoding of alien images, in an attempt to relate them to our cultural patterns, be it in the very moment of the trip or in the attempt of translating the experience into symbols we can communicate once the experience is finished. But in either case, and since the DMT experience is known for obliterating the border between object and subject, makes sense to think about hyperspace as a synthesis of both. We modulate the experience itself, or our self's reading of it, with information from our consensus reality; at the same time, the fabric of hyperspace is older than and beyond our culture.
So my take on this, at the moment, is that hyperspace is not just an alien reality, but also a place where human culture and non-human information converge.
"The Menu is Not The Meal." - Alan Watts