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Amir Freimann

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...

Amir Freimann

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

The background experience

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

Amir Freimann

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...

Amir Freimann

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

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...

Amir Freimann

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...