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The State
The object of study is not "the forest."
It is the human state.
These variables can be controlled independently, combined, measured and reproduced.
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An important distinction
A perceived intervention
An abrupt change in pain
Profound mental quiet
A participant may report:
A presence
An image
A sensation of movement
RECORDED
Experience
What the participant perceived and reported, preservd in their own words
UNESTABLISHED
Mechanism
What actually produced the outcome - determined only through separate measurement and testing
Not
Automatically
Solid line box - FSRL records the experience faithfully
Broken lines - It does not automatically treat the participant´s interpretation of the experience as an established mechanism
Phenomenology is neither dismissed nor literalized.
This is what preserves the integrity of the corpus: a rich, faithfully recorded account is treated as real evidence of what was experienced - and, separately, as an open question about what produced it.
THE SUBSTRATE
IN
IDENTICAL STIMULUS
Expectation
Cultural frameworks
Perceptual history
SUBSTRATE
A
Extensive technical training
B
Strong interoceptive attunement
C
Limited prior exposure
D
High imaginative absorption
Every trace above is drawn from the same input signal type. What differs is not the stimulus but the substrate it passes through – the same principle applied throughout this methodology´s case documentation.
Memories
Knowledge
Training
The experimental environment can be standardized without requiring identical phenomenology.
What if the content matters less than the depth of engagement?
One testable possibility is that physiological or behavioral effects may correlate more strongly with the degree of attentional absorption than with the specific imagery or narrative experienced.
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