Throughout history, concepts have been used to separate, violate, and manipulate.
Many have been traumatized by concepts that fail to dignify their perspective.
However, concepts can also be used to open new spaces of empowerment, beauty, meaningfulness, and possibility.
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It is critical to distinguish between concepts that CLOSE the world and concepts that OPEN the world. The distrust of concepts in spiritual and activist spaces can be traced back (in part) to the violence of being subjected to concepts that close.
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The idea, for example, of a spirituality 'without' conceptuality fails to recognize how inextricably intertwined our experience of the world and our conception of it is. There is nowhere to go where conceptuality will not exert it's power (at least not in time/space).
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Some conceptual frames use the idea of not being a conceptual frame so that you won't see them clearly enough to escape their control. Very subtle memetic trickery, that!
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this is a really interesting framing. I'm now thinking on when a concept crosses the line and becomes an ideology (memetic parasite).
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