phenomenology

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

Book Review: Surfing Uncertainty

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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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River Kenna https://x.com/the_wilderless

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

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

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How to Understand Things

Nabeel S. Qureshi nabeelqu.substack.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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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.