We unconsciously shift modes of being as ever changing circumstances prompt the direction of our essential Being. We all are unconsciously shifting from state to state in the “natural being”, that is, in direct opposition to a “phenomenological being” which recognizes the content as stemming from the distinct modes of being available to our psyche. Somewhere in between is the “mindful being” which is able to recognize the content stemming from the “phenomenological mode of being” or the noesis. The mindful mode fails to recognize the noeses. The phenomenological mode recognizes the mode, but only retrospectively. In directing attention towards the content manifesting in another person’s intentional content (acts such as speech / actions / what we perceive in others as displaying) we can place rudimentary bounds on the state of being they are displaying. The problem with recognizing our own noesis in the moment is that we only apply conceptual definitions to states which already happened, whether they were moments passed, or quite far removed from the present. The present constantly advances, I would say for practical purposes, it advances seamlessly, as our mental processing and subjective experience of it, for practical purposes, is a seamless, transient, impermanent flow of phenomena as they are altered “by the moment”. The smallest piece of the present we are able to experience falls somewhere on a timeline of “Planck time”, with which is smaller than the brain processing power we contain is able to visualize or notice. For all intents and purposes, the moment is not able to be captured, and as it is constantly being altered (the contents of consciousness is constantly being altered) it places us in a very difficult position in regard to noticing our current noesis. What we can do, is notice what noesis we previously were in, and by so noticing, enter into a phenomenological analytic mode of being, which we know we are contained in, if we are performing a phenomenological analysis. Without conscious attention being focused upon the noesis of the previous moment, we are simply not present in the phenomenological analyzing mode of Being, and if we are so seeking such specifications we know we are in a phenomenological analyzing mode of Being. In other words, we are only mindful when we are mindful. And we are only aware of our current state of being when we are looking for it, in which we can define our current mode of being as that which is looking for its current mode of being. Any other mode of being is manifested in a way which is happening, yet is not consciously found, as our consciousness isn’t directed towards an awareness of it. We cannot find what we are not seeking, yet the only thing we can find, is that we are seeking.

The only mode of being which we are phenomenologically able to analyze as being our present mode of being, is the phenomenological analytic mode of being. Where previous phenomenological reductions are made in reference to manifestations occurring in the past, to previous noemas, their content, actions, speech, thought, mental formations, etc., and the classification of such phenomena into a coherent noesis, and then through the reduction of such noesis in order to distinguish its essential characteristics, what we here are doing is searching for the mode of being, or noeses, underlying our current present moment. Now what mode of being can be discoverable in the present moment? Only that which we are looking for. The only method we have in which to look for such a mode of being is a phenomenological analysis. Thus, when we intentionally direct our phenomenological analysis towards the content of the present moment, the only thing we truly know about our current moment mode of being is that we are conducting a phenomenological analysis, thus we uncover that our present moment mode of being is a phenomenologically analytic mode of being. This is formulated with the caveat of time as being free flowing, as it is in our subjective experience, and disregards the physics of “Planck time” as time moving in “chunks” which are unrecognizable in conscious experience. Also, this doesn’t exclude the possibility that we are also simultaneously inhabiting another mode of being, it simply states that the only mode of being we can discover as referring to our present moment, is the phenomenological analytic mode of being. If we think of phenomenology as a search engine with all informational and experiential content appearing in the results, and we become aware that we are using google, we necessarily are aware of google being open in the browser, regardless if there are other tabs, what is happening in the present moment is solely the one tab of google (as the phenomenological analysis). While there are other modes occurring in the present moment, they are necessarily unknown to us in this present moment, while of course, phenomenology can discover this retrospectively, it cannot discriminate and parse out the simultaneous modes of being which overlap in any given moment.