The Subjective View: New from Psi-Fi Books on April 1!
What is it?
“That restaurant is terrible!” That’s an observation about the restaurant, an object in the world. It’s a nominally objective statement.
“I didn’t enjoy the restaurant.” That’s mainly a statement about you, what you like and don’t like—a subjective opinion.
You can make an objective observation about a subjective opinion. You can say “I didn’t enjoy that restaurant because I don’t like the smell of curry.” That’s being objective about a subjective attitude. This book excavates the depths of subjectivity using objective methods.
The Subjective View is about the sense of “what it is like” to have experience. Contemporary psychology focuses almost entirely on objects, situations, and measurable variables, neglecting the subjective experience behind it all. Neuroscience and general biology cannot explain experience.
This new approach draws on phenomenology, philosophy, and meditation to ground psychological explanations in empirical observation and critical thinking. Generalizable, transpersonal, and pre-personal structures of subjectivity emerge that shape experience.
Why Do We Need This?
We need it because we do not have good explanations for the world of subjectivity. We have next to no understanding of mental illness. We can’t understand why we were born or why we must die. We don’t know what love is or why it goes wrong. We are frustrated by how difficult it is to communicate with other people. We often have trouble distinguishing reality from imagination.
We struggle to control our emotions. We aren’t sure if God exists. We lose our keys. We don’t know why our bodies get sick, open the wrong door, or trip on a step. We aren’t sure whether our actions are well-motivated or mostly instinct. We don’t know who we can trust. We don’t know how we should live. We always wonder whether good or bad outcomes are due to intentions or luck. And we don’t know what luck is.
We are perplexed by questions of morality, justice, truth, fairness, togetherness, honesty, creativity, and their unpleasant complements, perversity, exploitation, lying, cheating, racism, and destruction. We haven’t much clue about language, beliefs, memory, motivation, or learning.
Science cannot address such puzzles because science only observes physical reality where none of those questions shows up. Such questions are scientifically “meaningless.”
That’s why we need a theory of subjectivity, to abstract first principles of subjectivity from experience using an objective set of empirical methods. Those can be applied to perplexing questions of life to produce a subjectively-oriented psychology.
Anyone who can take The Subjective View will have little trouble using it for themselves to address questions in psychology, science, religion, philosophy, and everyday life.
The Subjective View is released on April 1, 2026.
Get it at:
Kindle Ebook: ISBN: 979-8-9912255-4-0
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D2D Epub Ebook: ISBN: 979-8-9912255-6-4
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