the taken-for-granted realm

“By thus returning to the taken-for-granted realm of subjective experience, not to explain it but simply to pay attention to its rhythms and textures, not to capture or control it but simply to become familiar with its diverse modes of appearance–and ultimately to give voice to its enigmatic and ever-shifting patterns–phenomenology would articulate the ground of the other sciences.”

David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous, p 35