The Subjective View

The Subjective View is about subjectivity, the "what it is like" to have experience. The point of view is first-person, direct observation of the mind by introspection and related methods, using principled, consensus-constrained methodology. Contemporary psychology focuses almost entirely on objects, situations, and measurable variables, neglecting subjective experience. Neuroscience and general biology cannot explain experience at all.

A new theory, Subjective Realism, draws on phenomenology, philosophy, and meditation to ground psychological explanations in empirical observation and critical thinking. Generalizable, transpersonal, and pre-personal structures of subjectivity emerge that shape all experience.

Subjective Realism asks readers to suspend biological and physical presuppositions to begin afresh with subjective experience as the primary observation. The unwavering first-person perspective keeps subjectivity firmly in view and cuts through puzzles about mind, self, others, bodies, and world.