RIGOROUS INTUITION - CONSCIOUSNESS, BEING, AND THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL METHOD

This article explores the transpersonal aspects of two of the century' s most influential philosophers. Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger u tilized the phenomenological method, which involves direct intuitive s eeing. While Husserl's preoccupation was with consciousness, Heidegger 's focus was on Being. The sustained and dedicated use of the phenomen ological method delivered both of these men into the transpersonal dom ain. Their writings are examined against the background of classical t ranspersonal sources from Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism. The way in w hich each utilized ''phenomenological seeing'' to achieve transcendenc e is also explored. In many ways, the phenomenological method is a tra nspersonal enterprise in itself, and thus it may be appropriate as a r esearch tool for transpersonal psychology.