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Inner Awareness vs. Inwardness: Meditation\, Religious Experience\, and Altered States The Society \;for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience invites submissions of abstracts (300&ndash\;500 words\, not including references) for its group meeting at the Pacific \;APA (online\,  \;April 8&ndash\;12\, 2026). Accepted submissions will be given a 25-minute presentation time\, with up to 15 minutes for Q&\;A. \;  \;The topic of the panel should be approached within the frame of classical and contemporary phenomenology (e.g.\, Husserl\, Merleau-Ponty\, Schutz\, \;Gurwitsch\, Hopp\, D.W. Smith\, \;and others)\, postfoundational phenomenology (e.g.\, Mensch\, Salis)\, \;and post-Brentanian scholarship. Please submit your abstracts \;by September \;29 \;via \; \;https://sophere.org/2026-pacific-apa-abstract-submissions/. Send questions to \;ols@sophere.org\, cc to \;olouch@ucdavis.edu.  \; The self-reflective inner aspect of awareness (meant as its reflexivity and not as higher-order thinking) \;have \;induced multiple perspectives \;in philosophy. (See\, e.g.\, Farrell and McClelland\; Kriegel). These views\, however\, have all been confined to ordinary consciousness viewed naturalistically\, and not reduced to consciousness as such. As noted by D. W. Smith (2005\, 95):  \;&ldquo\;It is important to see\, on phenomenological grounds\, that there are different forms of awareness in one&rsquo\;s experience.&rdquo\; \;That noted\, perspectives on naturalistic ordinary consciousness may or may not apply to consciousness as such. This leads us to compare inner awareness in ordinary consciousness with the consciousness of interruption\, often characterized by \;inwardness: religious experience\, meditation\, or altered states (including chemically induced ones). Inwardness  \;is understood as intentional or spontaneous attention to the interiority of the self (cf. Flood 2013\; Husserl 2001\, 335-339). \;Comparison of \;ordinary consciousness with the consciousness of meditation\, religious experience\, or altered states  \;may work \;in lieu \;of imaginal variations\, which help \;explicate \;eidetic \;structures of concrete experiences and/or consciousness as such. \; Is inner awareness essential to consciousness? Should we attribute to it an epistemic role\, or is it but a form of consciousness that serves \; self-non-self \;distinctions? How does inwardness affect luminosity and transparency of consciousness? \; What are the relationships between inner awareness and the body in religious or spiritual inwardness? We invite reflections on these and similar topics\, as well as on eidetic analyses \;of concrete experiences \;and of \;relationships between description and meaning of inner awareness. \; \;  \;  \;  \; REFERENCES  \; Flood\, Gavin. \;The Truth Within. \;Oxford: Oxford University Press\, 2013. Jonathan Farrell\, and Tom McClelland. &ldquo\;Editorial: Consciousness and Inner Awareness&rdquo\;. \;Review of Philosophical Psychology \;8 (2017): 1-22. Husserl\, Edmund. \;Logical Investigations. \;Translated by John N. Findlay. 2 vols. Vol. II\, London and New York: Routledge\, 2001\, 335-339. Kriegel\, Uriah. &ldquo\;What Is Inner Awareness?&rdquo\; In \;Consciousness and Inner Awareness\, edited by A.Dewalque\,  \;D. Bordini\, and \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; A.Giustina. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming. Smith\, David Woodruff. "Consciousness with Reflexive Content." In \;Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind\, edited by David Woodruff Smith and Amie L. Thomasson\, 93-114. Oxford: Clarendon Press\, 2005.  \;

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