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1 - Moments of Truth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Russell T. Hurlburt
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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[A warm mid-July evening, clear with high clouds. Sunset, bright oranges and golds. Jack and Jennifer stand on the beach, holding hands. Quiet and still.]

jennifer: “What are you thinking?”

jack: “Right now?”

jennifer: “Yeah!”

jack: “Just how spectacular the sunset is – and about sharing it with you.”

jennifer: “Me too.” [Leans closer to him.]

The omniscient being knows that at the moment Jennifer began to ask “What are you thinking?” Jack was seeing in his imagination Barry Bonds-at-bat in the All-Star Game he had been watching when Jennifer suggested walking to the beach to see the sunset. As he had clicked off the TV, Bonds was just coming to bat with a man on second. Now, as they stood on the beach, Jack was, in his imagination, seeing Bonds as if seen from the pitcher's mound, seeing Bonds tap the front of the plate with his bat, seeing his left elbow rock high in the air as he prepared for the pitch, hearing the crowd roar. The omniscient being knows that Jack's experience was, at that moment, totally absorbed in Bonds's at-bat, knows that Jennifer's question interrupted Jack's Bonds-at-bat experience and brought the sunset and Jennifer into the foreground of Jack's experience.

The omniscient being also knows that at the moment Jennifer began to ask “What are you thinking?” Jennifer was feeling a dryness in her throat and a caving-in sensation in her chest – a worry/guilt/tension about whether someone had told Jack that she had flirted with the sales rep that afternoon.

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Investigating Pristine Inner Experience
Moments of Truth
, pp. 1 - 27
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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  • Moments of Truth
  • Russell T. Hurlburt, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Book: Investigating Pristine Inner Experience
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511842627.002
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  • Moments of Truth
  • Russell T. Hurlburt, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Book: Investigating Pristine Inner Experience
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511842627.002
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  • Moments of Truth
  • Russell T. Hurlburt, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Book: Investigating Pristine Inner Experience
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511842627.002
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