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Nice strong start here that (perhaps unintendedly) confronts the most basic critique of phenomenology: How do we establish an objective science based on subjective experience? The entire 1st chapter is a beautiful example of inquiry into present-time awareness. A self-dialectic if you will. How does one separate the tools and techniques of examination from consciousness itself? By not setting up that opposition in the first place. As an author, Tim Parks has the luxury of weaving his life into his subject matter which offers the reader an example of how poetic and creative the inquiry into direct experience can be. What don't I like about this? Well, this guy probably reminds me too much of myself. Other than that, Parks seems wedded to the "spread mind theory" although I suspect he's not yet fully convinced, i.e., he hasn't integrated this abstract framework into his working experience. No need to have a horse in this race; the journey is the destination.