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Amir Freimann
Aug 10, 20222 min read
The researcher and the spiritual teacher
Since I started my PhD research on Living Transcendence a couple of years ago, I was contacted by several people who had undergone a...
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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...
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Amir Freimann
Jul 16, 20221 min read
The background experience
One of the central concepts in phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger, Merlo-Ponti, Gadamer et al.) is "horizon" - a word pointing at the...
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Amir Freimann
Apr 24, 20221 min read
A comment that made a difference
Years ago I published in an Israeli newspaper an article about meditation, and in it I wrote that, when I sit in meditation, I connect...
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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...
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Amir Freimann
Feb 20, 20221 min read
Being led by a suprapersonal wisdom
In "The Art of the Novel" Milan Kundera writes: "When Tolstoy sketched the first draft of Anna Karenina, Anna was a most unsympathetic...
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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...
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