The background experience

Amir Freimann

Spiritual and/or other positive experiences

Experiences are, by the way they are commonly perceived and defined, limited on both sides by other experiences. Sensations, thoughts,...

Amir Freimann

What is "first person research" good for?

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

Amir Freimann

Exploring subjective exeprience

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

Amir Freimann

Your brain on fMRI

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...

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...