Hi TOK List,

  Here is the second part of the blog series I did with Dr. John Vervaeke on the “onto-normativity” problem. In it, I share a “transcendent experience” I had and then look at it through the lens he had developed called the “continuity hypothesis” which explains how transcendental experiences can be thought of as enhanced flow-into-altered states that enable people to get a more “optimal grip” on the self-world (or agent-arena) relationship:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/theory-knowledge/202002/the-11th-problem-consciousness

 

Here is the link to Part I if you did not see that:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/theory-knowledge/202001/the-11th-problem-consciousness

 

Best,
Gregg

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