“Our spontaneous experience of the world, charged with subjective, emotional, and intuitive content, remains the vital and dark ground of all of our objectivity.” – (Abram, 1996, p. 34) “Phenomenology is a low-hovering, in-dwelling, meditative philosophy that glories in the concreteness of person-world relations and accords lived experience, with all its indeterminancy and ambiguity, primacy […]

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There is something here that is inexpressible and yet inescapably prevalent in every part of the whole overall effect of what might be called a phenomenon, something happening. We perceive the world and grasp it and at once it slips away, mutating its form into a new configuration of our perceptual state. At what point […]

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It is imperative for me to explore everything that is here and to do so with the highest degree of honesty that I can possibly express. I am trying to think of a way to explain how basic of a task this is. To me, at the core of all of this is experience. There […]

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I think that the study of experience itself and what it means to be experiencing or to have an experience is absolutely essential. There is a first-personal nature to the question because experience is given with an embodied viewpoint. Throughout this blog, I will approach the questions of experience as honestly and primordially as possible. […]

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The issue of “being” is not something which one has to “know about” or even have a certain amount of “intellect” in order to understand. Instead, it is something quite perfectly obvious and all the same very mysterious because we desire to stretch outwards and turn our face back towards it to examine it “fully”. […]

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What is an experience once it is no longer “present”? What is a conversation once the words have escaped due to the passage of this force we call time? The question seems so amateur, and in a sense I hate that I have to go back to asking it. At the same time, though, it […]

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So, a lot of this is working off of Douglas Harding; he played with the argument that he had no head. (http://www.headless.org) I want to instead play with the argument that we have no face. I am sure this does not make any sense to you. Read on. Everything about the experience of a single […]

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