The mere idea of ‘functional pivots’, can act as a functional pivot, although as I’m not a _believer_ they don’t behave the way Carse suggests of extreme versions of conviction. They’re like points in thinky-space which can be pinned or let go of....they can be structural or not
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I vaguely assume that we can never really escape beliefs....they’re part of the fabric of our experience. Question is, how can we think about belief in ways which allow people to move from conviction (in Carse’s usage) to the “higher ignorance” of uncertainty?
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I feel like that's helpful — particularly in meditate/awareness trainings — but possibly leaves a lot of blind spots; beliefs lurking in the shadows. I may have misunderstood what you mean, of course.
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Yes, I personally find that way of talking elegant, helpful, enriching and so on. I'm also open to the possibility that much of what gets sold as gnosis/vidya are subtle — albeit elegant — belief systems, which is fine if the system tends to openness instead of closing off.
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Yes, the claim that someone doesn't believe stuff is almost always false. I suppose it is possible that someone may have brain damage or be in a state where concepts aren't part of their experience — or non-experience — but in general it seems quite a silly thing to say/want.
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