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Noetic Ableism

Noetic ableism is the systemic marginalization, pathologizing, or suppression of people whose forms of awareness, intuition, perception, or consciousness falls outside dominant cultural norms. It is similar to ableism, but instead of policing bodies and cognitive styles, it polices modes of awareness and ways of knowing.

Core Mechanism:

A culture creates an acceptable bandwidth of consciousness.
Experiences outside that range are:

-dismissed
-ridiculed
-medicalized
-spiritually distorted
-commodified

The goal (intentionally or not) becomes mantaining a narrow consensus reality.
If you have ever experienced noetic ableism you will know in your bones that ridcule becomes a soft form of social control, that others try to claim authority over your self-determined understanding of your own conscious evolution, and that spiritual emergence is often wrongly pathologized and the harm internalized.
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