“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
this feels connected to why I prefer sensory- and qualia-based healthcare approaches.
like, people """"""could""""" spend hundreds of hours learning how to review (often shoddy) academic papers
or they could learn to detect the felt sense of illness & remedy
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 e... See more
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