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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Basic Phenomenological Vocabulary

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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

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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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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

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

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stumbled across in an Experimental History substack article

“There can be no experience of the world without the experiencer and that, my dear friends, is us.”

“Before anyone can make theories or get data or have ideas about the world, there must be the raw presence of being-in-the-world. The world doesn’t appear in the abstract to a disembodied perspective floating in space… it appears to us, exactly where... See more

Book Review: Surfing Uncertainty

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