phenomenology

"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

We’re following instructions that weren’t meant for us, weren’t taking our phenomenology into account, weren’t a good fit for the composition of modern western bodyminds.

But then, something miraculous began to change. I began to see that if I shifted my internal relationship with meeting reality, it softened and moved. It became permeable. I saw that my relationship with everything required me to meet it and allow it to be fluid. I saw that reality was something to fall in love with, in my moment to moment... See more