The Interstitial
n. the space between.
One of the profound takeaways from the Fundamentals of Experience study was the realization that our vocabulary and tools to represent happenings as unfolding events is amazingly shallow. To truly note the unfolding, one needs to see the spaces between the cruses as active, inertial, and vibrant. All of the action happens in the in-betweens.
We are quite good at listing the events of the day and treating the list as if it is the honest representation of the day, yet it is none of the experience. 100% of our experiencing exists between the moments described on our lists. Attention to the interstitial is not merely a recognition of generic motion in experience; it is the understanding that all significant movement is either yearning-toward or -away-from the moment of happening. The crusis is not the experience. This moment is just a point in time that is lost as quickly as it arrives. One cannot experience the instant of note (crusis). We experience only the drive-toward and away-from.
We give names to things, but not to the spaces between them. (Steenson, 2017, p. 55)