Investigating Pristine Inner Experience
Moments of Truth

Shows how to apprehend inner experience in high fidelity, demonstrating that such apprehension can be fascinating and of fundamental importance.

Russell T. Hurlburt (Author)

9780521279123, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 27 June 2011

472 pages, 15 b/w illus. 8 tables
23 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.64 kg

"...the book is well written, engaging, and full of humorous retorts..."
–Dr. Henderikus Stam and Basia D. Ellis, University of Calgary, PsycCRITIQUES

You live your entire waking life immersed in your inner experiences (thoughts, feelings, sensations and so on) – private phenomena created by you, just for you, your own way. Despite their intimacy and ubiquity, you probably do not know the characteristics of your own inner phenomena; neither does psychology or consciousness science. Investigating Pristine Inner Experience explores how to apprehend inner experience in high fidelity. This book will transform your view of your own inner experience, awaken you to experiential differences between people and thereby reframe your thinking about psychology and consciousness science, which banned the study of inner experience for most of a century and yet continued to recognize its fundamental importance. The author, a pioneer in using beepers to explore inner experience, draws on his 35 years of studies to provide fascinating and provocative views of everyday inner experience and experience in bulimia, adolescence, the elderly, schizophrenia, Tourette's syndrome, virtuosity and more.

1. Moments of truth
2. Fragmented experience in bulimia nervosa with Sharon Jones-Forrester
3. Apprehending pristine experience
4. Everyday experience
5. Moments are essential
6. Experience in Tourette's syndrome with Michael J. Kane
7. The moment (not): happy and sad
8. Subjunctification
9. Before and after experience?: Adolescence and old age
10. Iteration is essential
11. Epistemological q/a
12. A consciousness scientist as DES subject
13. Pristine experience (not): emotion and schizophrenia
14. Multiple autonomous experience in a virtuoso musician with Ricardo Cobo
15. Unsymbolized thinking with Sarah A. Akhter
16. Sensory awareness with Chris Heavey and Arva Bensaheb
17. The radical nonsubjectivity of pristine experience
18. Diamonds vs. glass
19. Into the floor: a right-or-wrong-answer natural experiment with Chris Heavey
20. The emergence of salient characteristics
21. Investigating pristine inner experience.

Subject Areas: Clinical psychology [MMJ], States of consciousness [JMT], Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR], Philosophy of mind [HPM]