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 &
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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.
We ought to be including madness in such explorations of spiritual truths- not excluding it out of hand because those who experience these altered states of consciousness so often struggle to interpret the mind changes they experience-
the best theory we have of delusional states shows us that they occur from trying to interpret & understand an inherently different experience of conscious awareness, not that they spring up fully formed as changed beliefs about the world, that are obviously disprovable.
In trying to tackle the challenges of the world devaluing parapsychological & theological research which could lead to changed ontological paradigms, we so often cement in the unhelpful & discriminatory beliefs that root these paradigms in the first place.
I don’t think anyone sociologically informed could, for example, disentangle eugenics from the materialist enlightenment paradigm that informs so much of the philosophy of science still today, which so many spiritual, religious & parapsychological folk dispute.
In seeing sociology as part of that paradigm & not integrating its insights around structural oppression, they are throwing the baby out with the bath-water. The problems of discrimination can’t be solved with differently orientated discrimination.
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