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Jiang's term for Jacob Frank's practical magic: vividly imagining the world one wants until taboo and reality are reorganized around that vision.
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visualization
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "What he's doing is he's visualizing the world for you, right? He's telling you what the world could be. And what he teaches his..."
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Jiang defines Frank's method as visualization: the leader shows followers what the world could be and teaches that if they vividly imagine the desired world, it can arrive.
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Jiang uses a story about Jacob Frank and two nuns to argue that taboo and sexual prohibition are sustained by imagination and can be dissolved if someone successfully visualizes a different moral world.
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"What he's doing is he's visualizing the world for you, right? He's telling you what the world could be. And what he teaches his..."
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"...off. And then they have sex. Okay. That's the power of visualization. So what he's telling us is that. Okay. Everything is really imagination...."
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"So, this is a visualization of their understanding of creation. As you can understand, it's very complicated, okay? Does that make sense? Why is..."
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.
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