PROBING CONSCIOUSNESS
Inquiry into what we are.
We know the world through conscious experience.
But what do we know about Consciousness itself?
Probing Consciousness is an independent inquiry into Consciousness, self-understanding and human experience.
It brings first-person investigation into conversation with science, philosophy, psychology, phenomenology and contemplative traditions—without requiring any of them to become an authority.
Do not believe. Investigate.
Begin With a Question
Inquiry does not begin with certainty.
It begins when something we usually take for granted becomes worth looking at again.
What is Consciousness?
What do we mean when we say “I”?
What is the relationship between Consciousness and the ordinary sense of self?
What can we discover through science, philosophy and careful observation of our own experience?
And where must we remain willing to say:
We do not know.
One Inquiry, Six Entrances
Self & Consciousness
What is Consciousness—and what do we mean when we say that we are conscious?
Explore Consciousness, experience, identity, the ordinary sense of self, and the question of what we fundamentally are.
Meditation
What happens when meditation becomes more than a practice and turns toward investigation?
Explore attention, thought, sensation, silence, the meditator, and the sense of self.
Fear & Mortality
What are we actually afraid of?
Explore fear, dying, grief, caregiving, mortality, identity and human dignity.
Books & Essays
Some questions ask more of us.
Explore the written work of Probing Consciousness—from knowledge and meditation to mortality, Consciousness, action and the inquiry into Self.
Research
What does the evidence actually support?
Explore neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, phenomenology, contemplative research and the limits of what different methods can establish.
Conversations
What happens when a question is shared?
Explore dialogues, interviews and conversations across disciplines, traditions and lived experience.
An Open Inquiry
No conclusion is required before we begin.
You do not need to accept a philosophy.
You do not need to reject one.
You do not need to call yourself spiritual.
You do not need to call yourself a skeptic.
Skepticism, when it keeps a question open rather than closing it prematurely, can be part of the inquiry.
You do not need to know where the inquiry will lead.
Bring your questions.
Bring your experience.
Bring your doubt.
And look.
No authority.
No required belief.
No promised destination.
Do not believe. Investigate.
Probing Consciousness 