Towards an Organismic-Dynamic Epistemology and Research Methodology: The Further Mode of Knowing of Inner Experiences of States of Consciousness

As a contribution to the monographic issue of the Integral Transpersonal Journal, on the method of Biotransenergetics: an ontological methodology and clinical practice, this article focuses on Second Attention Epistemology, as an organismic-dynamic epistemological methodology intertwined with Biotransenergetics, and epistemologically concerned with the embodied further modes of knowing rooted in a perspective of transpersonal psychology. A corresponding research methodology is described here together with its embodied further mode of knowing, known as embodied understanding and embodied interpretation, the core concept in embodied phenomenological research methodology based on a transpersonal vision. The discussion exemplifies how these two approaches, Second Attention Epistemology and Embodied Phenomenology Research Methodology, may contribute to a re-complexifying of ourSelves in the world beyond a Cartesian divide. An organismic-dynamic mapping of inner experiences of states of consciousness is outlined, including a tool to access these states, called Transe Learning. Ontological concerns are discussed in relation to a transpersonal perspective. Our concluding thoughts focus on the nondual experience of human existence and point towards a culture of sharing embodied knowledge with community in dialogical, participative, and palpable ways. KEYWORDS Second Attention epistemology, embodied phenomenology, transpersonal psychology, Biotransenergetics