"Pristine Inner Experience" by Hulburt (a review)
How does Hurlburt's method of sampling what is happening in our minds work? What have we learnt from it about the variety of our everyday inner worlds - from thinking without symbols, to schizophrenia, to guitar playing? Welcome to another episode of "Imagine an apple"! Today, Vynn interviews Francis about his new favourite book "Investigating Pristine Inner Experience". The book describes Russell Hurlburt's "Descriptive Experience Sampling" method, and what we've learnt from it. Timestamps: 00:53 Why Francis likes the book 02:55 Hurlburt and his method 09:34 Scepticism 13:58 Unsymbolized thinking 18:22 Sampling yourself 25:59 Variety of inner experience 30:30 Schizophrenia, emotion 39:38 Benefits, guitar playing 48:10 Sonder Show Links: * Investigating Pristine Inner Experience: Moments of Truth [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12296608-investigating-pristine-inner-experience] - book by Russell T. Hurlburt * Descriptive Experience Sampling Codebook [https://hurlburt.faculty.unlv.edu//codebook.html] - Russell T. Hurlburt and Christopher L. Heavey * My mind sampling results [https://www.flourish.org/2024/04/my-mind-sampling-results/] - Francis' blog * RussHurlburt's YouTube Channel [https://www.youtube.com/@RussHurlburt] - Recordings of DES sessions * Inner Experience in Bulimia [https://hurlburt.faculty.unlv.edu/doucette-and-RTH-1993-inner-experience-in-bulimia.pdf], Fragmented Experience in Bulimia [https://hurlburt.faculty.unlv.edu/jones-forrester-and-RTH-2011-fragmented-experience-in-bulimia-nervosa.pdf] - papers by Hurlburt * Sampling normal and schizophrenic inner experience [https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1990-97399-000] - book by Hurlburt * Sonder [https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/23536922667/sonder] - definition in the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Contact Details: Please follow us, get in touch, tell us about your inner experiences! Twitter: @imagine_apple [https://twitter.com/imagine_apple] @SurenVynn [https://twitter.com/SurenVynn] @frabcus [https://twitter.com/frabcus] Email: imagine@flourish.org Theme written, performed and recorded by @MJPiercello [https://twitter.com/MJPiercello]