I have become a phenomenologist because I believe that the basic tenet of phenomenology, that is that we can only know with and through the screen of consciousness, is irrefutable. Yet phenomenological methods give us rigor to get to an understandable level of "truth" or "truths" that are also directly related to practice and to life experiences. (p. 209)

Jacobs, D. T. (2008). The authentic dissertation: alternative ways of knowing, research, and representation. London; New York: Routledge, 2008.