ABSTRACT
Human experience is psychological and manifested through subjective knowledge and observation of behavior patterns. The study of unconscious mental factors would tend to involve methodological issues of depth psychology and vital issues of how to arrive at consensual validity about second-party inferences about unconscious factors influencing a subject internally. The neuroscience study of transitions in state has its own methodologies, and the study of conscious and unconscious reasons for changing states of mind has its methodologies. These methodologies are formidable, and scientists have tended to focus on specialization with a methodology rather than on study of given type of human phenomenon. Progress at all levels of neural, cognitive and depth psychological sciences suggests that a convergence of explanations of a state of mind, of sets of states of mind, and of people who exhibit specific phenomena will soon be possible. In order to obtain these convergences, a revitalized focus on phenomenology is necessary, in settings that allow theoretical ranging across the mind-body problem.
