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time-space-knowledge
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Tapestry Unwind…
Oh memories of days gone by…
That won’t let you be free…
Hovering like a dark storm cloud…
Refusing life to breathe…
Ironically they may not be…
Just what they pretend…
Retracing them a different way…
Allows for them to bend…
Memories so frozen…
Now melting into free…
Allowing for such freedom…
Opens myriad possibility…
One memory can shut you down…
Or open up your mind…
To endless views and timeless being…
Tapestry unwind…
Starlight Dancing…
Add comment December 4th, 2009
Space: Powers of 10
The following flash animation is a helpful visual aid for several of the space practices, such as “Containment” or “The Qualities of Space” or perhaps several others:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/
You can make it run in reverse order as well…
Best wishes,
Bruce
1 comment February 4th, 2007
A Poem from the Online Program
This ‘poem’ emerged out of comments by three different participants in the online TSK program, I put them together. The context was reflections on some TSK exercises that ask about moments between moments, and about stepping ‘outside’ the flow of moments:
“What shall I call the transition
from breathing out to breathing in?
Death?”
Giving each moment back to time,
arisings are all time,
the glow of awareness,
a presence that is always now.
Jack
Add comment January 21st, 2007
Patterns of T-S-K
I’m posting this here because it is a little outside the scope of the current week’s topic. I read the remainder of the “Orientation” in SDTS that is assigned for this week’s unit and came across a passage that has fascinated me.
“Could this analysis into levels help us understand some of the obstacles we encounter as human beings? If there are three levels for time, space, and knowledge, this gives nine levels in all, and if these levels can interact with one another in different ways, this gives twenty-seven possible combinations. Could we analyze our own experience in terms of such patternings? For instance, if an individual has a second-level orientation toward space but a first-level way of interacting with time and knowledge, what characteristic issues and attitudes will manifest? What might be a good approach to opening up the patterns that this combination tends to introduce? Studying these patterns, can we see likely places of weakness or confusion? Can we see where experience will be most intensive, or most stuck, and how it might be possible to ‘re-pattern’ a given patterning? If there are twenty-seven patterns, are there also twenty-seven different ways of studying TSK?” (SDTS, p. xxxiv)
Has anyone attempted to build on this suggestion? Do you think such a “mapping” would be useful? As a student of Integral Theory and AQAL (all-quadrants, all-lines), which contains sophisticated ways to map the dynamics of human growth and behavior, I am curious about the potential of this TSK “psychograph” and how it might interface with other similar models. (Recognizing, of course, the limitations of models, while also not discounting their value as luminous gestures of knowledge).
Best wishes,
Bruce
17 comments December 9th, 2006
Showing Time in Space
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. We look into the basket from the right; we look at the biscuits from the left . . . The wine bottle teeters to the left as if we are moving around it counterclockwise. And the backside of the table on the right is far higher than it is on the left. The painting has us moving around; all of the space is filled out.
The point is this: the painting on this analysis sets out to give us more than one temporal moment at the same time. Viewing the painting, we are invited to experience an object in different temporal moments, to merge past-present-future. (You can find more detailed images on the web that may make this point more clear.) Does it work?
Jack P.
4 comments November 21st, 2006
Away at Home
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 ask after explanations, are not that helpful in TSK. However, they can be quite helpful in terms of pointing us to different possibilities.
Here, the implicit “why” question leads me to wonder: What if we tried to move through our own world as though we were strangers in a foreign culture, eager to learn, open to seeing. What would that be like? Anyone care to try and report back?
Jack P.
1 comment November 18th, 2006
