What is Convergent Phenomenology?

Directly at the very core of Husserlian transcendental subjectivity, taken in its most concrete intuitability, lies hidden an absolutely independent (and relation-like rather than thing-like) realm of both new experiences and new eidetic actualizations—together with their resultant descriptive and eventually systematic expositions—experiences and actualizations themselves intuitable at a “super-essential” level.  

Convergent phenomenology is the completely new, self-standing eidetic science dealing with this new material.

On Its Discovery 

"...the work of Jim Ruddy in the field of comparative philosophy, combined the concept of Transcendental Ego in Husserl's phenomenology with the concept of the primacy of self-consciousness in the work of Sankaracharya. In the course of this work, Ruddy uncovered a wholly new eidetic pheomenological science which he called "convergent phenomenology." This new phenomenology takes over where Husserl left off, and deals with the constitution of relation-like, rather than merely thing-like, or "intentional" objectivity."

...From the Wikipedia Article of "Phenomenology"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology

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"Nearly thirty years ago, a graduate student in comparative philosophy sent a draft of his thesis from Madras, India. I sent him, as a reader of his thesis, some pages of comments, which he used to fix his work. Three decades later, I received a rewritten copy of that work to which now I write the foreword. The author’s life has since then undergone vast changes, mine not so much. It is undoubtedly a great pleasure to read a competent work in which three of the greatest philosophers of the world—Aquinas, Sankara  and Husserl—are treated with equal respect, their philosophies “synthesized,” as a result of which a new interpretation of Husserl is just on the verge of emerging."

    --Jitendranath Mohanty (Foreword to Convergent Phenomenology by Jim Ruddy)

"In general you are trying what few dare..."

   --Donn Welton (review notes on the manuscript of Convergent Phenomenology by Jim Ruddy)

The work-project of convergent phenomenology "...has huge merit...Ricoeur was not mistaken in his support for your work."

   --Richard Kearney (email correspondence)

    Edmund Husserl 

Roots

.  There are two limit concepts that bring the science of convergent phenomenology into transparent focus at the heart of Husserl’s “concrete” transcendental subjectivity, and thus place such a now-super-eidetic science at last beyond the retentive-protentive finitude of inner-time-consciousness. The first limit concept, based on a sub-ontology of “real relation” discoverable in Aristotle, Avicenna, Aquinas, Poinsot and Suarez, is a working distinction between the inesse of thing-like objectivity and the adesse of relation-like objectivity. The second limit concept is the final, irrevocable distinction between the subject-consciousness of a super-knowing (compare Sankara's svarupa-sambhanda, or Heidegger’s e-ject as opposed to ob-ject) that knows everything simply by knowing itself as the source of everything, and the object-consciousness of a composite knowing that knows itself only by being already inextricably rooted in the endless adumbrations and unfoldings of empirical perception.