spiritual exemplars | Amir Freimann

Amir Freimann

Nov 24, 20222 min read

Exploring subjective exeprience

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

Amir Freimann

Aug 10, 20221 min read

Being out of words

Recently I had some Zoom calls with people who are "living transcendence" without making any song and dance about it - "hidden mystics" I...

Amir Freimann

Jul 16, 20222 min read

Awareness of the sacred in times of crisis

I the interviews I conducted with spiritual exemplars as part of my PhD research, one of the questions I asked was: Did you have in your...

Amir Freimann

Jul 16, 20221 min read

Description of vs thoughts about experience

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

Amir Freimann

Jun 13, 20221 min read

The aesthetics of religion and spiritual exemplars

In a Closer To Truth interview, Victoria Harrison explains the importance of spiritual/religious exemplars with regards to the question...

Amir Freimann

Apr 5, 20222 min read

Why I want to create a film about "Exemplary Love"

A few days ago I had a Zoom meeting with my PhD advisory board. The three professors, who are also dear friends, started the meeting by...

Amir Freimann

Mar 19, 20221 min read

Existential Exemplars

In a paper called "Learning from Exemplars" by Pieter Vos (2018) I found a beautifully clarifying sentence about the effect of spiritual...

Amir Freimann

Mar 18, 20221 min read

Interview with Mooji, October 2016

In October 2016, while travelling in Spain and Portugal, Ruti and I were generously hosted by Neo-Advaita teacher Mooji at his ashram in...

Amir Freimann

Feb 20, 20221 min read

Mystics without mystical experiences

I'm writing a research proposal to study the state of consciousness of spiritual masters or exemplars. In that context I'm reviewing...