phenomenology

a philosophy of experience that seeks to explain the nature of things through the way people experience them

"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

- Kasra

there’s a take i think of internally as the “minimal but respectful take” on astrology, tarot, magic, etc. which is that nothing is happening that violates known physics, but that the human mind is capable of discerning real signal from more info than the west assumes

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When we are simply attentive to the raw data of sensory experience, we cultivate a quality of bare attention that is free of concepts, that doesn’t make more out of something than it actually is, that doesn’t build a story around the experience or analyze the experience or imagine a different or better scenario. It is a way of being that is free

Mark Coleman • Awake in the Wild

What Should I Read?

agentyduck.blogspot.com

to be very clear, attachment styles are not real, IFS parts are not real, none of that stuff is real, in a specific sense. it's scaffolding. it's pointers to the rough shape of more subtle dynamics that one can come to understand in much more granular phenomenological detail

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The Symmetry Theory of Valence (@The Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London)

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By staying with our raw sensory experience, we cease to see the world through our concepts and subsequent fears. We learn to meet our experience just as it is. A sound is just a sound; a sensation is just a sensation. Nothing more, nothing less. There is profound peace in this quality of presence.

Mark Coleman • Awake in the Wild

And as I gave in more and more to focusing on this falling in love and melting with reality, I began to see that something was always trying to happen. There was always this melting, this melding with, making friends with reality available. I only had to feel and be creative in allowing reality to let me in. And when I met it, there was more and... See more

coreyhess.substack.com

Open and Closed

rivalvoices.substack.com