Daniel Thompson Email & Phone Number

I study phenomenology from an interdisciplinary perspective. Particularly the mythological origins of the cosmos.In addition to actively seeking agent representation and publishing opportunities for my books: 'The Littoral'; 'Keepers of the Light', my main area of expertise is in design and business anthropology. Consulting/ advising individuals and businesses on how their products are likely to be perceived by customers, in the same way that one intuits the essence of objects through their inherent radiance (beauty) or truth.As active participants in the phenomenology of perception, we must be aware of our influence on what we are observing when trying to achieve objective results. Patience in this process is as crucial as attention to detail and repetition. We learn as much from our environment as we do from any other kind of knowledge or source, in fact our environment may be the true, original source. The longer we can prevent ourselves from projecting our own pre-conceived notions on what we are seeing, the closer we will get to its true form or essence.If we are not constantly objectifying this faculty we will end up with an idiosyncratic interpretation of our surroundings which, while interesting, will not yield useful information. This is not to say that I support an objectivist view of reality (objectivist in the poetic sense), but rather an intersubjective one, where we are subjects constituting the objects around us through the faculty of conscious awareness. We are never apart from consciousness and the objects of consciousness, they are always one.

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  Vancouver Island University, University Of Victoria

  Anthropology, Philosophy, Creative Writing