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seems to me that most of the interesting interpretive work is happening deep in the reader’s unconscious, almost inherently inaccessible to any kind of rationally legible testing framework, and that this is fine and good actually

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Aug 18, 2020

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also seems to me that the kind of phenomena accessible to exploration via “statistically-significant sample sizes” are the kind where you can assume away differences between people that are exactly the focus of magical or spiritual practice

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Aug 18, 2020

perhaps! it's entirely possible to make that error, but also possible to examine those factors. my question is, if a phenomenon resists any attempt to look straight at it, does it really exist?

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