Christian Thomas Kohl The Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism and Modern Science

a doctrine of the exclusive primacy of introspection is already
discredited in psychology. Each occasion of experience has its own
individual pattern. Each occasion lifts some components into primacy and
retreats others into a background enriching the total enjoyment. The
attitude of introspection shares this characteristic with all other
experimental occasions. It lifts the clear-cut data of sensations into
primacy, and cloaks the vague compulsions and derivations which form the
main stuff of experience. In particular it rules out that intimate sense of
derivation from the body, which is the reason for our instinctive
identification of our bodies with ourselves.
In order to discover some of the major categories under which we can
classify the infinitely various components of experience, we must appeal
to evidence relating to every variety of occasion. Nothing can be omitted,
experience drunk and experience sober, experience sleeping and
experience waking, experience drowsy and experience wide-awake,
experience self-conscious and experience self-forgetful, experience
intellectual and experience physical, experience religious and experience
sceptical, experience anxious and experience care-free, experience
anticipatory and experience retrospective, experience happy and
experience grieving, experience dominated by emotion and experience
under self-restraint, experience in the light and experience in the dark,
experience normal and experience abnormal.
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