Imagine an apple
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<p>A podcast about our different inner mental experiences. Presented by Vynn Suren and Francis Irving.<br><br>Why can some people imagine and others can't? How do different people experience emotion? How is our view of our own minds influenced by our culture?</p>
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Recent Episodes
January 14, 2026
Meditation with Jess
What's the detail of the inner experience of meditating? What do you see while body scanning? How does noticing more details of inner experience alter your beliefs about your mind? Welcome to another episode of "Imagine an apple"! Today, Vynn and Francis chat with meditator Jess (also known as Frideswyth on Twitter) about the granular detail of her attention and visual imagery while meditating. Timestamps: 02:07 Why Jess started meditating 08:24 Body scanning 17:28 Visual imagery while body scanning 22:28 Imagery and inner voice every day 25:16 Horror movies 29:36 Phenomenology of emotion 32:13 Changes due to meditation 36:19 Koaning 40:34 "First awakening" 49:09 Thinking nothing 53:15 Meditation is phenomenology 55:04 Each aspect of mind is already missing in someone Show Links: * The Power of Now [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Now] - by Eckhart Tolle * Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha [https://www.mctb.org/] - by Daniel Ingram * Liberalis Events [http://www.liberalis.events/] - for more about JessCamp * Tales For The New Future [https://frideswyth.wordpress.com/] - Jess' blog * @frideswyth [https://x.com/frideswyth] - Jess' Twitter Contact Details: Please follow us, get in touch, tell us about your inner experiences! Twitter: @imagine_apple [https://twitter.com/imagine_apple] @SurenVynn [https://twitter.com/SurenVynn] @frabcus [https://twitter.com/frabcus] Email: imagine@flourish.org Theme written, performed and recorded by @MJPiercello [https://twitter.com/MJPiercello]
November 3, 2025
Alexander technique with Michael Ashcroft
What is it like to experience "open awareness"? What's the difference between doing and non-doing? What is "thinking"? Welcome to another episode of "Imagine an apple". In this episode, Vynn and Francis talk with Michael Ashcroft about what it is like to do Alexander Technique, an awareness-based skill which he teaches. Twitter: @imagine_apple [https://twitter.com/imagine_apple] @SurenVynn [https://twitter.com/SurenVynn] @frabcus [https://twitter.com/frabcus] Timestamps: 01:00 Michael's introduction to Alexander Technique 03:00 The origins of Alexander Technique 05:32 Internal Awareness 05:40 Michael Imagines an Apple! 06:44 How does AT make people aware of their awareness? 08:01 Coming back to the world 09:15 Being in the world 11:06 Attention in the world 12:10 Flow states 14:25 Non-doing 17:39 Habitual responding and not responding 19:29 Actively not doing vs just not doing 20:28 Mind and body are one process—Bodymind 23:20 Inhibition 24:26 Practice 26:20 Feeling "it" for the first time 27:31 Letting go of control 28:42 Meditation and Alexander Technique 34:15 Exercises in Alexander Technique 37:34 Thinking 39:54 What do you mean by thinking? 41:52 Conceptual thinking and subconscious thinking 43:10 Conscious cognition and nonconscious cognition 44:20 Parallel processing 45:44 Thoughts, feelings, IFS parts 47:14 AT mode 24/7 50:30 Technology and contracted awareness 52:15 Wrapping up 54:28 Tips about Alexander Technique 55:52 Francis' experience of AT Links: * South Bank Alexander Centre [https://www.alexandercentre.co.uk/] - school Michael first went to * "Unthought" [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo25861765.html] - book by N Katherine Hayles * Expanding Awareness [https://expandingawareness.org/] - Michael's Alexander Technique site * Fundamentals of Alexander Technique [https://expandingawareness.org/courses/] - Michael's beginner course * Michael's YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/c/MichaelAshcroft0/videos] * @m_ashcroft [https://x.com/m_ashcroft] on Twitter * Michael Ashcroft [https://michaelashcroft.com/] - personal website Theme written, performed and recorded by @MJPiercello [https://twitter.com/MJPiercello]
October 5, 2025
"Pristine Inner Experience" by Hulburt (a review)
How does Hurlburt's method of sampling what is happening in our minds work? What have we learnt from it about the variety of our everyday inner worlds - from thinking without symbols, to schizophrenia, to guitar playing? Welcome to another episode of "Imagine an apple"! Today, Vynn interviews Francis about his new favourite book "Investigating Pristine Inner Experience". The book describes Russell Hurlburt's "Descriptive Experience Sampling" method, and what we've learnt from it. Timestamps: 00:53 Why Francis likes the book 02:55 Hurlburt and his method 09:34 Scepticism 13:58 Unsymbolized thinking 18:22 Sampling yourself 25:59 Variety of inner experience 30:30 Schizophrenia, emotion 39:38 Benefits, guitar playing 48:10 Sonder Show Links: * Investigating Pristine Inner Experience: Moments of Truth [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12296608-investigating-pristine-inner-experience] - book by Russell T. Hurlburt * Descriptive Experience Sampling Codebook [https://hurlburt.faculty.unlv.edu//codebook.html] - Russell T. Hurlburt and Christopher L. Heavey * My mind sampling results [https://www.flourish.org/2024/04/my-mind-sampling-results/] - Francis' blog * RussHurlburt's YouTube Channel [https://www.youtube.com/@RussHurlburt] - Recordings of DES sessions * Inner Experience in Bulimia [https://hurlburt.faculty.unlv.edu/doucette-and-RTH-1993-inner-experience-in-bulimia.pdf], Fragmented Experience in Bulimia [https://hurlburt.faculty.unlv.edu/jones-forrester-and-RTH-2011-fragmented-experience-in-bulimia-nervosa.pdf] - papers by Hurlburt * Sampling normal and schizophrenic inner experience [https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1990-97399-000] - book by Hurlburt * Sonder [https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/23536922667/sonder] - definition in the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Contact Details: Please follow us, get in touch, tell us about your inner experiences! Twitter: @imagine_apple [https://twitter.com/imagine_apple] @SurenVynn [https://twitter.com/SurenVynn] @frabcus [https://twitter.com/frabcus] Email: imagine@flourish.org Theme written, performed and recorded by @MJPiercello [https://twitter.com/MJPiercello]
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<p>A podcast about our different inner mental experiences. Presented by Vynn Suren and Francis Irving.<br><br>Why can some people imagine and others can't? How do different people experience emotion? How is our view of our own minds influenced by our culture?</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates bi-weekly.
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