The Findings
when the world split
When the World Split brings together the CAHSS 2026 conference presentation and a Philosophical Memoir as two expressions of the same inquiry. At its centre lies an examination of consciousness, not as an abstract problem, but as something that emerges through lived experience, rupture, and the impulse to make a mark.
The Philosophical Memoir forms the ground of this work, tracing the experiential and reflective conditions from which paleophenomenology arises. The conference presentation offers a more structured articulation of this framework, situating it within ongoing conversations around early human experience and the limits of archaeological interpretation. You will find here Three Mirrors, Six Stages of Awareness and Three Layers.
Together, they outline paleophenomenology as a research approach that moves between experience and analysis, questioning how consciousness comes into being and how it may be approached through the traces left by early humans.
the presentation
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29 APR 2026
afternoon
the text
When the World Split is a research-based philosophical memoir developed within the context of doctoral work at Bangor University. It explores the emergence of consciousness through a three-layer model, moving between lived experience, philosophical inquiry, and therapeutic practice.
At its centre, the text introduces paleophenomenology as a methodological approach: one that traces the conditions through which awareness, meaning, and the impulse to create come into being. Rather than treating early human marks as symbols to be decoded, it attends to the moment in which significance itself first emerges.
Structured as a non-linear, layered inquiry, this work does not present a closed argument. It operates as a space of investigation, where autobiographical experience and conceptual reflection intersect. This Philosophical Memoir forms the ground from which the framework arises, holding material that remains in formation while establishing a coherent direction of thought.
This text is intended for readers working across philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and consciousness studies, as well as those engaged in questions that exceed disciplinary boundaries.
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The pdf can be downloaded for free HERE
