secrecy by means of non-disclosure is essentially an obsolete phenomenon, so this is the only kind of knowledge worth calling "occult knowledge" at this point:https://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1193302182478483456 …
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there is knowledge that consists of patterns that language and culture are not well set up to encapsulate, whose proper operating level of abstraction isn't something which is commonly understood to exist, and so on, that can be pointed at with language but not specified in it
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esoteric traditions typically speak in some way of this knowledge being "transmitted", the idea being that if you can't get it across by saying it, you can in some way move it around by other media. possibly i may be permitted doubt as to how much of this is actually occurring
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This is the point of initiations, right? Rather than transmitting knowledge directly, you create the conditions in which the student can derive the same conclusion
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i'm not honestly sure that that is the point of initiations but it certainly seems like it should be
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