by Evan Dwan | Apr 18, 2020 | News |
What are mental activities? Mental activities are experiences that happen in the mind. When we describe what our minds are, or what happens in the mind, we are talking about mental activities. What are some of the things you are aware of in your mind? Mental...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 18, 2020 | News |
Albert Einstein wrote ‘The fish will be the last to discover the water’. What does this mean? It means that we often don’t see what is right in front of. Or what we are in the middle of. Take the mind, for example. What is the mind? It is the sea in which we swim and...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 18, 2020 | Uncategorized |
Here is a question: Is the heart separate from the veins that feed it? Or are the veins separate from the blood that moves through them? Is a branch something separate from a tree? Or is the soil, the water, or the sunlight that feeds the tree separate from the tree...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 18, 2020 | News |
The philosopher Edmund Husserl argued that we can ‘see’ our minds and how our experience of the world is structured. He called this ‘intuition’ – seeing the structure of consciousness. This intuitive seeing brings something into presence in our experience. Intuition,...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 17, 2020 | News |
Observation without evaluation “You can learn a lot just by watching” – Yogi Berra What happens when we observe something without evaluating it? The primary way we ‘know’ something is pre-conceptual – it comes before thoughts and ideas. The normal way we process...
