It is raining. But it is kind of a delightful rain. It is raining in that way where it is just a light drizzle. If you allow yourself to think of it as such, it is almost charming. It reminds me of these days when I was a child. I used to go outside with […]
Read more "Beginning Exploration of Phenomenology in Film"“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.” – A.E. Housman Objectivity is rooted in our desire for the intercommunicability of all tangible and perceptual experiences in a shared reality. We design coordinates and measurements to align the apparatus of our body (or the mechanisms of our measuring devices) towards a common […]
Read more "Tethering to Truth in a Shared World"Who would have ever thought that something as trivial as a hairstyle would make me feel more courageous in expressing myself in general? Surely, I have always been exceptionally feminine and interested in aesthetics, but wearing my hair in pin curls makes me feel this fun lack of shame about who I am in ways […]
Read more "Pin Curls, Self Expression, and Body Positivity"Languages riddles out my experiences and reflections while tango dancing through the in-betweens. It is with writing that I can play with plausible combinations, unifications, and loopholes. In The Book, Alan Watts addresses this idea that true wisdom is comprised of awareness of the unification of appearing opposites and dichotomies. Throughout all of my experiences, […]
Read more "Unification and Derivation"What are the greatest endeavors of human thought? In Western culture, understanding, knowledge, and empirical precision are heralded as though they comprise the zenith of all human understanding and the ultimate conglomeration of all of our efforts. Towards the end of my undergraduate studies, I began to realize that the arts had this extraordinary ability […]
Read more "Endeavors of Thought"Response Notes from Self, No Self?: Perspectives from Analytical, Phenomenological, & Indian, a collection of essays edited by Mark Siderits, Evan Thompson and Dan Zahavi (2011): Diachronic identity is a component of the substantialist view of the self. It refers to the persistence of an enduring entity over time, and can be used as a […]
Read more "Overview of Theories of The Self"The natural attitude in the sciences operates on an ontology that suspends subjectivity in favor of conceiving pure nature as the grounds for all being, and hence all understanding. The body is viewed as a condition of possibility within the context of other physical objects in objective space, wherein which it can be defined by […]
Read more "The Expressive Body"Truth is tricky. It can seem so satiating, and yet unpredictable in its availability. Sometimes it is imperceivable, almost as though it vanishes and reappears and then vanishes again before anyone can track it or claim it. And yet, as a lover of empiricism it is alluring to savor the truth that does appear and […]
Read more "Trust and Truth"Phenomenologists start with the exploration of experience as it presents itself, as it is given. How honest/sincere can we possibly be in doing this? It becomes an exercise in truth-speaking…visceral, uninhibited, association and context-free description. Everything that we say about our experience is framed by the structures already at place in that experience. — Is this […]
Read more "Recursive Processing"The asanas (the poses in yoga) designate varieties of forms for the body so that the body can incrementally make more and more room for the breath and to open up pathways for the breath to move and flow throughout the entire body. In samkya yoga philosophy, the force that allows for all life to […]
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What is Experience? 