My dear friend Urban Kordes is a professor at the University of Ljubljana, specialized in "first person research". "First person...

Subjective experience is, by one definition, characterized by being known only to the experiencing subject and discloseable only by...

A few weeks ago I had a conversation with an old friend - I'll call her O - who is a very experienced meditator and yoga practitioner. I...

Recently I had conversations with a few friends about my interest in exploring people's "background experience": those elements of our...

One of the central concepts in phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger, Merlo-Ponti, Gadamer et al.) is "horizon" - a word pointing at the...

In a paper by Chris Letheby with the above title, he suggests that psychedelics and meditation can both (1) disrupt self-binding...