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The Queer Gnostic Cult

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The Social Spirituality of the Soul

In Foucault's terms, she says the soul is not imprisoned by or within the body as some Christian imagery would suggest. And so what we're actually uncovering here through all of this very gobbledygook is that the spiritual or noetic realm for queer theorists is socially concerned. So the soul is social spiritual and your possible possibly liberated true soul that is who you are is not that. That just shows in reflection on a surface signification through the body because who you think you are and have to be gets inscribed on you by that social spiritual environment that you internalize.

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