Transjective

Philosophical term developed by John Vervaeke — describing a mode of knowing that is neither purely subjective (inside the knower) nor purely objective (outside the knower) — but transjective, arising in the participatory relationship between agent and environment — the epistemic category underlying Vervaeke's account of religio-mythological experience.

Creates the epistemological category for participatory knowing — Vervaeke's transjective fills the gap in standard epistemic dualism (subject vs. object) by naming the mode of knowing operative in genuine contact with meaning, flow states, and contemplative experience; it is the category that explains why scientific objectivism fails to account for the phenomenology of religion, art, and self-transformation.