I am tired of posturing and pretense Loud music and screaming solicitude. I want to tell you that I keep finding beauty in you, I want to look into your eyes. The imposition is implied, and the conversation that is wanted to be had simply gestures itself through a masked incarnate of what could have […]
Read more "Cruises for Crushes"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"There is something that it is like to be a twenty-five year old woman living in an urban area. Let me tell you about it. It is a Saturday night in Chicago and the invite is for a going-away party but she does not know the hosts. These parties are meant to include the slight-strangers, […]
Read more "Self-Mythology and Other Tales of a Lost Ego Trying to Find Itself"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 […]
Read more "The Asanas and Samkya Philosophy"Prompt: Write about you think we fear the most…. yet write from experience. Split us and you wide open. The secrets that aren’t being heard. I think the greatest fear is that of annihilation. Throughout the course of our lives, loss of control and loss of what is so often given and readily available is […]
Read more "Primal Fear"Reflections on Maturana, From Being to Doing (2004): In the pursuit of truth, the prevailing attitude in the scientific culture and community is to assume the existence of an a priori external world which is separate from our bodies and experience. This metaphysical assumption posits the existence of an independent reality as the background on […]
Read more "Metaphysical Assumptions in Science"What is the essence of “life” that makes a living system different from a non-living, inanimate, mechanistic system? Chemists approach this question by addressing the difference between “organic” and “inorganic” matter, and the emergence of carbon atoms that allowed for a tremendous variety and dexterity in molecular structures. Biologists address the question by defining the […]
Read more "Autopoiesis"How much agency do we attribute to our actions? What actions do we attribute greater agency to and why? Is this at all based on energy exerted, focus and attention, directedness, goal orientation, deliberateness, personal investment, etc? Are actions for which we associate higher levels of agency more resistant to confabulation than actions with lower […]
Read more "Agency, Body, Actions, Others"Cardinal crashes as wings disperse and dissolve Leaving puzzle pieces upon a floor as its only trace. A sight so terrifying and disturbing, I must escape to the hills with the children, and amidst them an old man tells me the secret of the fields. I walk on lavender and sink into a calm. One […]
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What is Experience? 