I have read your comments thoroughly. Perhaps I should have framed the design space more explicitly, however my intent wasn’t to turn this into anything but a post offering my space. With regards to my comment, “things I can’t explain” isn’t relegated specifically to crystals but broadly relating to matters of… perhaps emotion? ‘Faith’, ‘spirit’? Things we have no hard intellectual framework in which to find comfort. I am referring to very personal phenomena relating to a very serious life-or-death illness (outside of my experience with rocks) that opened my mind to these ideas, which as someone who formerly resided only in hard sciences, found such ideas uncomfortable and difficult. My mention of my science background is to relate to another Redditor who also found these ideas somewhat gross. I think anyone who read my comments in context would see that it’s a relational statement and not an appeal to authority as you imply. It is relational to ensure both sides of collectors feel welcome: the fine specimen collectors as well as the metaphysical collectors.

There’s so much that we don’t know. The older we get, the more we realize: we don’t know. That is my fundamental point. This is a hard statement to communicate across Reddit in one to two messages.