phenomenology
a philosophy of experience that seeks to explain the nature of things through the way people experience them
phenomenology
Table of Contents and Overview
anielsen.substack.com
Moreover, adopting this curious, receptive attitude throughout your life is what will make your practice actually meaningful. Sitting for long periods of time is not particularly useful if you don’t make practice part of your way of being. See if you can drop into a state of presence here and there throughout the day. Get into the habit of asking,... See more
Sasha Chapin • What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Starting a Meditation Practice
And as I gave in more and more to focusing on this falling in love and melting with reality, I began to see that something was always trying to happen. There was always this melting, this melding with, making friends with reality available. I only had to feel and be creative in allowing reality to let me in. And when I met it, there was more and... See more
coreyhess.substack.com
stumbled across in an Experimental History substack article
The best path to uncover our true desires lies in the body. Our embodied experience of how goals and activities feel to pursue can highlight where there’s personal resonance.
Sam Sager • Exploring Our Why
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?
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
Carmenx.com"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
- Kasra
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.