@Britta Bohlinger

That definition that you mentioned, with the “multiple levels of consciousness” is a bit too new-age for what I think the method really does (BTW, I like a lot of new age things, but that opens an entirely new level of discussions when speaking about qualitative work).

I think that one of the issues you raised, namely of the variety of modalities, and how things are not quite as clear-cut as they used to appear at times is more of an important issue. Many people seem to like clear definitions and ways of looking at issues, but I think that autoethnography helps to demonstrate that life is much more complicated and complex than the nice neat little boxes in which we like to classify things.