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(written by Riel)
This post is an attempt to describe a philosophical concept that has been floating around in our general headspace for... a very long time, which has taken a long time for us to codify and find words to describe. The word "spirit" here isn't being used in the sense that we consider it an actually spiritual thing, although some of us do incorporate it into spirituality (reminder again in case anyone reading this doesn't know it: in-system, we can vary widely between each other in spiritual beliefs and philosophies. We always worry when we mention this that people will consider it somehow impossible, and start looking for a commonality or "true" belief under all of them in the same way some people look for a "true self," but nonetheless, it is how we are.)
( Lots of detail on this. Warning for long post. )
Anyway. This concept is also, I think, going to be basic to our attempts to articulate various other perceptions we've had of things and people, and, well, to understanding how we work in general really. So it will show up again in future posts, I'm pretty sure; so we can refer back to this post if someone doesn't know what we mean when we talk about this concept.
This post is an attempt to describe a philosophical concept that has been floating around in our general headspace for... a very long time, which has taken a long time for us to codify and find words to describe. The word "spirit" here isn't being used in the sense that we consider it an actually spiritual thing, although some of us do incorporate it into spirituality (reminder again in case anyone reading this doesn't know it: in-system, we can vary widely between each other in spiritual beliefs and philosophies. We always worry when we mention this that people will consider it somehow impossible, and start looking for a commonality or "true" belief under all of them in the same way some people look for a "true self," but nonetheless, it is how we are.)
( Lots of detail on this. Warning for long post. )
Anyway. This concept is also, I think, going to be basic to our attempts to articulate various other perceptions we've had of things and people, and, well, to understanding how we work in general really. So it will show up again in future posts, I'm pretty sure; so we can refer back to this post if someone doesn't know what we mean when we talk about this concept.