Experiencing timelessness and the phenomenology of temporal flow

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ID21592191
AuthorsPaweł Gładziejewski (0000-0001-5639-0923, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, corresponding author)
Year2026
Volume39
Issue4
Pages1303-1332
Publication date2026-05-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophical Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0951-5089 • E-ISSN: 1465-394X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09515089.2024.2444508
OpenAlexW4405655080
LanguageEN
References cited58

Our conscious experience seemingly involves the subjective sense or feeling of the passage of time. However, in recent years, several authors have denied that such an aspect or feature of experience can be found. If the experience of the flow of time exists, it remains elusive and intangible. My aim here is to try to pin it down. For this purpose, I will investigate acute disturbances of normal temporal experience that accompany deep meditative and psychedelic states. I will argue that these experiences of altered temporality provide phenomenal contrast cases to ordinary passage phenomenology, allowing us to establish the existence of the latter and making it amenable to theorizing

Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Consciousness · Epistemology · Feeling · Temporality · Diverse academic research themes · Philosophy · Psychedelics and Drug Studies · Psychology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

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