Subjugated Knowledge
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Subjugated Knowledge (also called Marginal Knowledges)[1] refers to 'entire domains of knowledge, practice, or symbolic tradition that have been disqualified, delegitimized, or rendered invisible because they conflict with the assumptions, goals, or interests embedded in the dominant Creative Framework.
Often dismissed as primitive, irrational, unscientific, or "insufficiently elaborated" by institutional authorities,[2] these knowledges are not abandoned due to epistemic failure but actively suppressed to prevent contradiction, challenge, or contamination of elite-controlled Creation Templates.
Concept Map
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Syncretic Terms
- Marginal Knowledge
- Forbidden Knowledge
- Alternative Knowledge
- Counter-Hegemonic Knowledge
- Rejected Epistemologies
Related LP Terms
- Creative Framework
- Knowledge System
- Ideology
- Indoctrination
- Authentic Spirituality
- Symbol Factory
- Toxic Epistemology
Non LP Related Terms
- Epistemic Violence (Spivak)
- Cultural Hegemony (Gramsci)
- Discursive Exclusion (Foucault)
- Social Imaginary (Castoriadis)
Key Characteristics
- Epistemic Disqualification – Subjugated Knowledges are excluded from legitimacy by claims of incoherence, irrationality, or lack of method, regardless of their healing utility or empirical resonance.
- Strategic Suppression – These knowledges often represent existential, spiritual, or political alternatives to elite frameworks and are thus suppressed via ridicule, marginalization, or institutional erasure.
- Threat to Ideological Control – By offering cosmological, ontological, or ethical alternatives, Subjugated Knowledges challenge the authority of elite-controlled Symbol Factories and Ideological Institutions.
- Candidates for Recovery – Excavation and validation of subjugated knowledge is a key step in decolonization, healing, and planetary transformation (see Authentic Spirituality and Knowledge System).
Examples
- Indigenous Spiritualities – Holistic systems grounded in land, connection, and reciprocal ethics, often dismissed as "superstition" or "myth." [3]
- Feminist Epistemologies – Deemed "subjective" or "unscientific" in male-dominated institutions.
- Mystical Experience Research – Marginalized in favor of behaviorism or neuroreductionism despite overwhelming human testimony (see Connection 100).
- Alchemy, Tarot, Hermeticism – Stripped of metaphysical depth and reduced to entertainment or pathology.
Role in LP Framework
In the Lightning Path system:
- Subjugated Knowledges are often sources of **Authentic Knowledge** that support healing, Connection, and Human Development.
- Their suppression is a function of **Toxic Epistemology**, coordinated by agents of the Regime of Accumulation through ideological filtering mechanisms.
- Recovery of subjugated knowledge is essential for building a liberated, New Energy Creation Template aligned with human potential.
Notes
Indigenous spiritualities are examples of subjugated knowledge. See for example Lawlor [4]
Foucault emphasizes that subjugated knowledges can be recovered through critical genealogy and recontextualization. See "A Foucault Primer" for a concise summary.[5]
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Footnotes
- ↑ McHoul, Alec, and Wendy Grace. A Foucault Primer: Discourse, Power and the Subject. New York: Routledge, 1993.
- ↑ Foucault, M. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings. London: Harvester Press, 1980, p. 82.
- ↑ Lawlor, Robert. Voices of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime. Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 1991.
- ↑ Lawlor, Robert. Voices of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime. Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 1991.
- ↑ McHoul, Alec, and Wendy Grace. A Foucault Primer: Discourse, Power and the Subject. New York: Routledge, 1993.