phenomenology

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

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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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

Elena Lake in the forest of dangers & wonders x.com

Table of Contents and Overview

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stumbled across in an Experimental History substack article

Exploring Experience: Phenomenology for a Lighter, More Joyful Existence (coaching call)

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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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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

When Did Things Begin to Unmistakably Shift in Your Practice?

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.

River Kenna • What is Somatic Meditation?

What Should I Read?

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