The Emerald Sei and Her Soul Are Separated: The Colonization of Consciousness and Reclaiming the Visionary State
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Aug 20, 2019 AI Snips
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Hierarchy Of Consciousness Is Cultural
- Western culture privileges 'Normal Waking Consciousness' and sidelines visionary and dream states as less real.
- The episode argues this hierarchy is cultural, not universal, and limits human experience.
Colonial Dismissal Of Visionary Practices
- European colonizers dismissed other cultures' trance and dream practices as primitive or devilish.
- This dismissal reinforced a Eurocentric model that rewired how societies value imagination.
NWC Was Elevated Arbitrarily
- Early 20th-century Western researchers ranked normal waking consciousness at the top of a hierarchy.
- The host says this classification is arbitrary and reflects European cultural bias.