Developing a social memory complex

[Anders]

Isn't it arrogant of me to believe that I can interpret alchemy correctly when people have tried for a thousand years? Maybe, haha, but with the internet and people with actual knowledge posting a lot of information about alchemy I believe it's possible to find some truths. Even Terence McKenna said that the muses didn't smile on the alchemists and it's a really heavy reading. So I think one is almost forced to come up with all kinds of speculations. And I feel that my current understanding is a little bit frankensteinish, meaning it doesn't fit together seamlessly as a coherent whole, but anyway it's a start and attempting to make one's own interpretation prevents falling into the trap into other people's interpretations. Even experts may be wrong. Alchemy is highly esoteric, and therefore very obscure.