Really struggling with the barely contained undercurrent of ableism that permeates, just under the surface, the world views of so many in spiritual & parapsychological spaces. Everything is contrasted with or juxtaposed with disability & madness as lesser untruth. - ThreadSky

elizabethmi.bsky.social • 30 days ago

Really struggling with the barely contained undercurrent of ableism that permeates, just under the surface, the world views of so many in spiritual & parapsychological spaces. Everything is contrasted with or juxtaposed with disability & madness as lesser untruth.

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elizabethmi.bsky.social•30 days ago

Whether it’s Rowan Williams, a theologian I deeply respect, talking about the pathology of sin & individually orientated addictions of our environment (as opposed to the shared intrinsically human nature of sin,

elizabethmi.bsky.social•30 days ago

quite opposed to pathology which can be evaluated as value neutral even as it is a negation of normal functionality-& is obvs something that has gone individually awry rather than a universally shared state-& too the social systems that underpin and seem to determine so many destructive behaviours).

elizabethmi.bsky.social•30 days ago

Or whether it’s the telepathy tapes exploring psi phenomena in non speaking autistic people- & trying to contrast the ableism of people who use facilitated communication with the equally ableist take that their

elizabethmi.bsky.social•30 days ago

This should have said the ableism against people using facilitated communication. As in those who seek to invalidate the words of spellers as not their own bc of the support they need to communicate.

elizabethmi.bsky.social•30 days ago

verifiable informational telepathic abilities should be hierarchically valued above experiences of madness-when the best evidence we have of psi phenomena such as in the Ganzfield experiments is that it more reliably occurs in altered states of consciousness,

elizabethmi.bsky.social•30 days ago

such as sensory deprivation contributing to hypnogogic states, or in disabilities of the body-mind, leading to a different integrations of consciousness or access to universal or collective consciousnesses. The existence of disability &

elizabethmi.bsky.social•30 days ago

madness ought to be seen as part of the puzzle not contrasted with it as meaning that we should value some disabilities more than others because of the gifts they could potentially give us.

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