phenomenology

“There can be no experience of the world without the experiencer and that, my dear friends, is us.”

“Before anyone can make theories or get data or have ideas about the world, there must be the raw presence of being-in-the-world. The world doesn’t appear in the abstract to a disembodied perspective floating in space… it appears to us, exactly where... See more

"There are two ways to make the world more mesmerizing: to seek out new and increasingly intense experiences, or to loosen the filters that make ordinary experience “ordinary”. You can go skydiving, or you can meditate for long enough that walking feels like skydiving. Either way, I think what we’re seeking is an escape back into what we used to... See more

Phenomenology

Is a branch of modern philosophy that attempts to describe phenomena - the world of appearances- ‘as they are’, unmediated by intellectual filters.

Phenomenologists ask themselves - how can we best allow the world of objects to shine forth? Preconceptions and the intellectual apparatus are ‘bracketed out’ in an attempt to let the world

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When you encounter a new idea, you change, and so the world changes. When you share an idea with another, they change. When you create a new idea, you restructure the ecological space of ideas itself. At each of these steps, the material world has changed, because ideas and people are part of the world. And when your ideas change so too does your... See more