Showing Time in Space

November 21, 2006

I recently came across an interesting discussion of the painting at the right, in a book by H. Peter Steeves, call The Things Themselves: Phenomenology and the Return to the Everyday (SUNY 2006). Here is what Steeves has to say:
The front of the table does not match up on both sides of the rumpled tablecloth. [...]

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Away at Home

November 18, 2006

This post is based on a report by one of the participants in the TSK online program. She reported on an experience most of us have had: feeling more alive and more present while traveling.
It is easy enough to theorize about why this is, but in general, “why” questions, in the sense of questions that [...]

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Wonderment of Being

October 16, 2006

“Wonderment is the presence, the presenting, the appreciation of reality as Being. All appearance is sheer art, beautiful beyond all enduring, appealing beyond all possibility of possession. It cannot be possessed but it is entirely accessible. The treasure which our being preserves for us is like an ever-present nectar; it is like an inexhaustible kingdom [...]

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Celebrating Time, Space, Knowledge

October 15, 2006

“The capacity of Great Space is never exhausted or compromised by a commitment to one particular trend or world order. Great Space can let anything appear. Great Space supports infinitely many choices of perspective.” (Tarthang Tulku, Time, Space, and Knowledge)

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Model-based thinking

September 22, 2006

As those of you who attended the 2006 pre-conference workshop that Allan Combs and I led may recall, I have some reservations about the field of Systems Thinking (Systems Science). They have to do with the implicit assumption that the embodied reality of our experience can be modeled, and that meaningful knowledge will come from [...]

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Embodiment Discussion Area

September 16, 2006

If you have something to say about Embodiment or if you’d like to suggest a particular Embodiment discussion topic, click the comment link below.

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Mind in Nature Discussion Area

September 16, 2006

If you have something to say about The Natural World or if you’d like to suggest a particular The Natural World discussion topic, click the comment link below.

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Law & Society Discussion Area

September 16, 2006

If you have something to say about Law & Society or if you’d like to suggest a particular Law & Society discussion topic, click the comment link below.

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Education Discussion Area

September 16, 2006

If you have something to say about Education or if you’d like to suggest a particular Education discussion topic, click the comment link below.

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Welcome to Fields of Inquiry

September 16, 2006

Would you like to suggest a new Field of Inquiry?
Do you have a question about an existing Field?… then leave a comment/question.

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