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In examining an analytic encounter, the author's experiences with her analysand are understood within the matrix of intersubjective object relations, Buddhist psychology, and perinatal research. In the process of her clinical experience, the analyst experienced her body as a resonating, containing space, an echo chamber, to that of her analysand's unconscious communications. The author focuses on four capacities that foster a generative, bidirectional relationship between the conscious and unconscious, unconscious and unconscious, and between different self-states within and between analyst and analysand. These four capacities are mental flexibility, negative capability, unconscious reception, and intuitive capacities. With these four capacities in mind, the author formulates an intersubjective method she terms transcendent attunement, a fluid state of being in which occurs a transient and nonpathological suspension of duality between self and other and that constitutes an atemporal mode of experiencing.