Phenomenology of the Transcendence of Space-time Coordinates

Abstract

“Death announcements,” which are related to actual physical death in circumstances that could not be rationally anticipated, challenge a materialistic view of the human psyche. Two instances of this phenomenon are presented—one representational, the other written. Might there be something that transcends the content of experience in time and space, perhaps a function of the Self in an active principle named “soul,” or the “morphic fields” of contemporary science ? A phenomenology based upon lived experience includes “death announcements,” a knowledge of one’s death that emerges without any rational explanation.