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path: "/posts/alternative-epistemologies"
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date: "2022-07-19T23:19:51.246Z"
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title: "Alternative Epistemologies"
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type: "wiki"
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level: "1"
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style: "prose"
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image: ""
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description: ""
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note: "Max Fowler"
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I may have first became interested in alternative epistemologies,
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while reading about Terrence Mckenna in my early years of college.
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Later this blossomed into a more general interest in alternative epistemologies,
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as I had more fist-hand experiences of things which were deemed "impossible" or "misguided"
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by the mainstream consensus knowledge-making systems, but which seemed undeniable in my own experience.
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From Godels Incompleteness Theorems, to the philosophy of science,
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it seems even within the academic world of rationalism,
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the way things work cannot be as singularly and precisely pinned down,
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as some might have hoped.
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This wiki could have alternatively been called "Conspiracy Theory Research",
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and I find conspiracy theories to be fertile ground
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(and not really the bogey man the liberal media portrays it as,
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which is ironically its own form of conspiracy theory)
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but to me "conspiracy" is in a way just the emotionally-dark genre
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of the much larger field of all knowlede-making systems
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which don't start with the assumption that what most people believe is true.
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![et](assetts/et.png)
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I would like to make the clause that I don't agree 100% with everything that is listed within this wiki,
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which would also be impossible, because there are loads of contradictory views,
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but I also feel no need to separate myself from the more "out there" opinions either
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— in my eyes the world is much stranger and more beautiful than the new york times would have you believe.
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<br/><br/>
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Flat-earth theories are really interesting to me.
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Whatever shape earth you walk on, it feels like a deep invitation to look through your own eyes again.
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[Flat Earth vs Globe Earth](posts/flat-earth)
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<br/><br/>
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*Alternative Medicine*
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This one is more meaningful to me, because I have more personal experience of how "alternative" medicine has cured
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ailments in myself and my friends, and how many people I know are suffering from chronic illness and injury,
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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.
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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,
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and before I had first-hand experience. Here is a link to a detailed log I've recorded since 2017 keeping track of all the
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times I experienced symptoms of illness.
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Many people would consider me a covid-truther or conspiracy theorist,
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— I've even had one friend say to me, "I know you are skeptical of the medical industry, but you're not like *them*".
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To me this feels like an unimportant distinction — sometimes I think the more outlandish conspiracy theories
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are just folk-lore communicating through another dialect.
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Here is what I personally feel to be the best piece of writing I've written about western medicine, vaccination, misinformation and non-holistic public health: <br/><br/>
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[Misinformation](/posts/misinformation)
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<br/><br/>
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This are.na channel is where I'm collecting any and all resources related to alernative epistemologies. <br/><br/>
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[no liberation without curiosity towards many epistemologies](https://www.are.na/new-name/no-liberation-without-curiosity-towards-many-epistemologies)
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<br/><br/>
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And here are some more resources I am curious about: <br/><br/>
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- [9/11 FAQ by Ran Prieur](https://www.ranprieur.com/essays/911FAQ.html)
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