ABSTRACT
This chapter considers different modes or dimensions of introspection as constituting a theoretical or paradigmatic multimodal introspection framework. It explores the introspection across disciplines, that is, narrative versus metacognitive introspection. The chapter explains primarily a metacognitive approach and also considers basic introspective thought exercises as a tool for understanding. It discusses the idea of the phenomenal versus epiphenomenal in terms of what may seem phenomenal or important to one introspector may not seem so to another. The chapter analyses the groundwork for developing multimodal introspective theory and insight by considering hypothesis-testing versus grounded theory introspection. It provides extrospective versus introspective observation as well as embodiment. The chapter suggests that something quite different from other understandings and practices of introspection—it is nonconceptual consciousness which is the key element while it is conceptual consciousness which interferes with or blocks insight. This may rise to constitute a different paradigm from the usual consciousness/nonconsciousness one.
