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I may have first became interested in alternative epistemologies, while first reading about Terrence Mckenna when I was younger.
From Godels Incompleteness Theorems, to the philosophy of science, it seems even within the academic world of rationalism, the way things work cannot be as singularly and precisely pinned down, as some might have hoped.
An alternate title of this wiki could have been "Conspiracy Theory Research", (I think the bogey man that conspiracy theorists are "the problem" is ironically its own form of conspiracy theory), but to me "conspiracy" is in a way just the emotionally-dark genre of the much larger field of all knowlede-making systems which don't start with the assumption that what most people believe is true.
the world is stranger and more beautiful than the new york times would have you believe
Whatever shape earth you walk on, flat-earth theories feel to me like a deep invitation to look through your own eyes again.
Alternative Medicine
This one is more meaningful to me, because I have more personal experience of how "alternative" medicine has cured ailments in myself and my friends, and how many people I know are suffering from chronic illness and injury, some of who I imagine might also be like me, whose conditions might not be inherent but actually caused by the illness-causing conditions of modern society. Here is a tweet from 2017 back when I was still questioning if it was even possible to find the healing I was looking for, and before I had first-hand experience.
Many people would consider me a covid-truther or conspiracy theorist, — labels are not so important to me, but I do think the industrial medical paradigm is trash for a number of reasons.
Here is something I wrote about western medicine, vaccination, misinformation and non-holistic public health:
Misinformation
a general are.na channel of resources
no liberation without curiosity towards many epistemologies
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