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Experiencing Existence Itself
This paper investigates the possibility of experiencing existence itself independently of psychological conditioning, conceptual interpretation, and self-referential identification. Human perception is ordinarily mediated through memory, belief, comparison, expectation, and the psychological structure commonly identified as the self. As a result, experience becomes an encounter with mental representations rather than with existence directly. Through a phenomenological analysis, this paper argues that existence can be encountered immediately when psychological mediation subsides. Such experiencing is neither mystical nor theoretical but constitutes a direct awareness of being prior to conceptualization. The inquiry explores the relationship between consciousness, identity, perception, and presence, proposing that the direct experiencing of existence reveals a mode of awareness free from psychological division.
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