The Phenomenology of an Insight

I remember that, even when I was very little child, I used to spend time ‘feeling myself from the inside’, observing myself carefully, because I had this profound desire to understand what the difference was between a thought, an intuition and a ‘something more’ that, every now and then, happened to me and I couldn’t give it a name. This ‘something more’ was an almost physical experience: at a certain point, while I was involved in one of my daily activities at the time, it was as if a light bulb turned on, right above my head. Then, this light reverberated inside my brain but also managed, in an almost magical way, to spread itself inside of me. The result was that I suddenly found myself in a state of clarity – both mental and emotional – of expansion, of great creativity and of almost bliss.

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