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An ongoing philosophical exploration

What you take the world to be depends on how it appears to you.
The books mentioned below explore that appearing, not to explain it, but to stay with it.

There is no conclusion waiting at the end.

 

 

Introducing 'Configurations of Appearance'

Configurations of Appearance does not replace 'foundations' with 'freedom', but shows how appearance operates without either.

It consists of a series of three books:

  1. This Is It: A clear look at experience before beliefs, spirituality or explanations.
  2. Mindsets: How different ways of thinking quietly shape everything we see.
  3. Origins: What exists before meaning, structure, or belief take shape.

All three books can be read independently from each other.

These books are not meant to teach you a system or offer answers.
They are meant to stay close to experience itself, to the way things appear before they are explained, interpreted, or turned into beliefs.

This is it

This is it | How the World Shows Up as Experience

How the World Shows Up as Experience

Ever wondered why explanations never quite settle the feeling you already have? This book does not offer conclusions or a coherent worldview. It follows experience as it forms itself, interprets itself, generates certainty, and dissolves it again.

'This is it' includes an extensive review by Miranda Warren.

→ This is it

Mindsets

Mindsets | A Cartography of Experience

A Cartography of Experience

A mindset is not an interpretation of experience; it is the architecture of experience. In one mindset, the world is coherent, predictable, shared. In another, it becomes symbolic, porous, immediate, or overwhelming.

A mindset is a way a world appears, not a belief, not a disorder, not an insight, but a configuration of experience.

→ Mindsets

Origins

Origins | Conditions of Appearance

Conditions of Appearance

Origins asks not how worlds differ, but under what conditions anything like a world can appear at all.

Not within experience, but prior to its stabilization. Not within meaning, but before meaning becomes possible. Not within perspective, but before perspectives take shape.

→ Origins