Human experience is a baffling phenomenon. We think we know it. We even think we know it better than anything else. And yet, our private experience might be the greatest unsolved mystery of humankind. The French philosopher Maurice Merleau Ponty pointed out that “the world which is revealed to us by our senses and in everyday life, seems at …
Your Emotional Property
The other day a friend called me in a state of emergency. Something had happened, and it had triggered an overwhelming tidal wave of emotional reactions. A few questions revealed that there was no acute threat. Nothing ‘real’ was putting her or her family in danger. An intense surge of emotions had been activated inside her, and it …