phenomenology

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

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

Book Review: Surfing Uncertainty

slatestarcodex.com

predictive processing

Just realized I don't really talk about psychedelics anymore because I learned to meditate (and I use that term loosely—what I'm referring to is actually more like a cluster of skills that can be summed up as "sink into and trust my felt senses, which when listened to carefully, reveal vital information about how I take in the world and feed it... See more

Carmen x.com

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

Centrelessness, Boundarylessness Phenomenology And Freedom From The Cage Of The Mind

Roger Thisdell medium.com

Philosophy

sari and • 118 cards

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

QC x.com

thread

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

QC x.com

one of my big shifts the last four years was from "health & wellbeing as a list of chores I have to do" to "health & wellbeing as a self-motivating attractor state, because feeling good feels good" a key to the shift seems to be:... See more

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