Presence: Beyond Orientation - Without Justification

By Wilfred-Leonard Bastiani

Presence - Beyond Orientation - Without Justification is the final movement in a philosophical triptych that began with Availability and continued through Hope. Where openness was first unveiled and later stabilized, this book inhabits what remains when nothing needs to be held, defended, or promised. It does not seek resolution or synthesis, but attends to the condition that appears once orientation itself has fallen silent. Presence is not presented as a practice, belief, or achievement. It is approached phenomenologically as coincidence with situation: body, time, and context aligned without projection, urgency, or demand. Presence is neither cultivated nor maintained; it is recognized when effort withdraws and the future no longer functions as justification for the present. Drawing on philosophy, depth psychology, and process thought, the book dismantles modern assumptions of instrumentality, productivity, and availability-as-use. It questions the compulsion to optimize experience, to extract meaning, or to validate life by outcome. What remains is not withdrawal, but embeddedness-life encountered without leverage or claim. What emerges is not consolation, but clarity: a form of fidelity to what is, lived without leaning toward what should be. Not beyond the world, but fully within it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1291874518
• ISBN13: 9781291874518
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Length: 62 Pages
• Weight: 0.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 4.3" x 7.0"