I Coined A New Term

[ExploringReality]

Epistemic Sovereignty!

The ability to stand in your own knowing without needing anyone to validate your knowing because your knowing is self-existent, self knowing, self evident.

Needing reality to be validated really came when we were kids because we inherently were taught that our own perception cannot be trusted, so we naturally looked to others that took care of us to tell us what reality is. That's what gaslighting is, when you don't trust yourself and other people colonize your mind and define reality to you. Sovereignty of mind is what makes gaslighting impossible from other people. Others can only fool us when we don't trust our selves or we doubt our sense of reality.

Imagine being absolutely sovereign, that's God 101. But it doesn't mean your cold or closed off, it just means you don't need other to tell you what you are or what reality is. Any how, hope this helps

 

 

[TruthFreedom]

That's just, like.....your OPINION, man

[Ramasta9]

Sounds like something Leo would say Isn't that just a more intellectualized (mental framing) of what ancient wisdom has always called awakening, gnosis, or self-knowing? or simply to Know Thyself and live in accordance to your Truth? I guess for me this has always been a natural trait of being alive and awake, sober, conscious.

[Carl-Richard]

Epistemic sovereignity is always nested in epistemic dependence. Without a surrounding environment, you wouldn't get beyond 0 years old.

[Ramanujan]

3 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

Epistemic sovereignity is always nested in epistemic dependence. Without a surrounding environment, you wouldn't get beyond 0 years old.

Ooo carl

INFP power

[ExploringReality]

4 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

Epistemic sovereignity is always nested in epistemic dependence. Without a surrounding environment, you wouldn't get beyond 0 years old.

No.

What I mean is that once one becomes God-realized, consciousness is self-knowing and self-validating.

Epistemic dependence belongs to the relative, dualistic stage of development, childhood, ego, learning. Epistemic sovereignty belongs to the absolute, nondual recognition of consciousness as its own ground. It doesn’t depend on another knower.

[ExploringReality]

1 hour ago, Ramanujan said:

Ooo carl

INFP power

"INFP power" funny enough, I’m actually ENFJ. My post wasn’t about personality style, but about a developmental stage where consciousness becomes self-validation. It’s less about inward idealism and more about realizing the self-knowing nature of awareness itself. I'm not sure if that was a stereotype shorthand on your part.

[Carl-Richard]

7 hours ago, ExploringReality said:

No.

What I mean is that once one becomes God-realized, consciousness is self-knowing and self-validating.

Epistemic dependence belongs to the relative, dualistic stage of development, childhood, ego, learning. Epistemic sovereignty belongs to the absolute, nondual recognition of consciousness as its own ground. It doesn’t depend on another knower.

Is it a new term if you use it to say something which has been said for 30 000 years?

[ExploringReality]

1 hour ago, Carl-Richard said:

Is it a new term if you use it to say something which has been said for 30 000 years?

No. I didn't know it was said that long. I came up with it in my own mind, it was my own insight but it's cool that I'm not the only one! 

Isn't it true that scientists and sages throughout time, stumbled upon insights that other people had as well? I'm not claiming to own that term, I only phrase it that way because I came upon it myself and not just hearing someone else say it and copying them. Like when the Europeans colonized the Americas, they didn't discover it right, but they made that journey and discovered it for themselves even if it was already occupied