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- [New Perspectives through Creative Inquiry](https://creativeinquiry.org/new-perspectives/)
- [A Successful Weekend at the Bay Area Book Festival](https://creativeinquiry.org/2025/06/12/a-successful-weekend-at-the-bay-area-book-festival/) - The Bay Area Book Festival, held in downtown Berkeley on Sunday, June 1st, went swimmingly for organizers and vendors alike! The event took place along Allston Way & Harold Way, which meant that much of it unfolded directly in front of Mangalam Research Center and Center for Creative Inquiry’s new building. There were big crowds
- [Challenging the Familiar](https://creativeinquiry.org/2025/02/19/challenging-the-familiar/) - “The only rewarding thing for me is to bring to light information that no one knows. What’s the point of rehashing the same old thing?” –Dorothy Porter To honor Black History Month, I have been reading books and articles about noteworthy historical figures who are often overlooked in our history classrooms in the United States.
- [A New Vision of Reality Ep. 12](https://creativeinquiry.org/2024/12/19/a-new-vision-of-reality-ep-12/) - Bruce Alderman is joined by Elissa Slanger, a TSK and Kum Nye instructor, psychotherapist, and former ski instructor. Elissa discusses her deepening exploration of TSK, with its impact on her life, her practice as a psychotherapist, her work on the arts of aging, and much more.
- [Video: The Gravity of the Past](https://creativeinquiry.org/2024/07/10/video-the-gravity-of-the-past/) - Video from Creative Inquiry into the Law Series.
- [Migrant Earth by Deema K. Shehabi](https://creativeinquiry.org/2024/08/26/migrant-earth-by-deema-k-shehabi/) - So tell me what you think of when the sky is ashen? —Mahmoud Darwish I could tell you that listening is made for the ashen sky, and instead of the muezzin’s voice, which lingers like weeping at dawn, I hear my own desire, as I lay my lips against my mother’s cheek. I
- [Video: The Power of Not Knowing](https://creativeinquiry.org/2024/05/01/video-the-power-of-not-knowing/) - Many of our legal systems in the United States are centered on conflict between two opposing sides. Whether it is the adversarial model of justice or the two-party political system, we have adopted mechanisms for making decisions that assume the best outcome will emerge from the clash of two conflicting stories.
- [The Dreaming of the Sands](https://creativeinquiry.org/2024/02/19/the-dreaming-of-the-sands/) - We can examine the sinew and bones of experience for their secrets, but it may be that the mystery of time is to be found elsewhere. I have the privilege of knowing people who are working on books and classes that introduce the insights of Tibetan Buddhism to westerners such as me. How different that
- [What Is It Like To Experience?](https://creativeinquiry.org/2023/12/13/what-is-it-like-to-experience/) - Remembering Sogyal Rinpoche saying, “Your experience will not enlighten you.” And suddenly the words fly apart Diving into the space of Y-O-U-R Entering molecules of ‘Y’ But what is entering? Awareness Somewhere a sense of a mirror Gleaming, silvery; allowing and reflecting arising appearance Where does this sense of ‘I’ come from? Taught? Racially inherited?
- [Phrase from Shakespeare's Macbeth](https://creativeinquiry.org/2023/11/29/phrase-from-shakespeares-macbeth/) - Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrowCreeps in this petty pace from day to dayTo the last syllable of recorded time,And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Living in this way, the past in a sense, is always present with ‘recorded time’ as a legacy or lineage we carry. From a position and identity,
- [Raven Knows](https://creativeinquiry.org/2023/11/08/raven-knows/) - A trunk by itself is nothing Concentric circles locked in place Big zeros and little zeros Marking time, polarizing space But add branches, add a few twigs Limbs reaching out, gathering in And the trunk packs for a journey Birds come, rain falls, sunlight tarries Mother Gaia knows the way home: Tower arising
- [Relying on Direct Knowledge](https://creativeinquiry.org/2023/10/11/relying-on-direct-knowledge/) - One of the characteristics of thought is its power or charisma. This charisma draws us into the arena of the thinking mind, holding us captive. The aim of our practices, such as Kum Nye, TSK, or Nyingma meditation, is to open this world of thoughts. When we can directly experience the field, the energy, and
- [The Hook of Purpose](https://creativeinquiry.org/2023/09/09/the-hook-of-purpose/) - When we are mindful of our goal and aware of the present moment, our concentration links our energy to the momentum of time, effortlessly sustaining us. Instead of interacting with surface appearances and superficial roles, we touch deeper dimensions of experience that return to us a rich and satisfying energy. Acting upon a personal commitment
- [Stories](https://creativeinquiry.org/2023/08/24/stories/) - The narrative unfolding of the self's story amounts to an ongoing agreement the self makes with itself for the purpose of witnessing its own identity and affirming its ownership over experience. —Tarthang Tulku, Love of Knowledge (Ch. 25) Consider carefully what happens when you pick up a good book. You open the cover with anticipation,
- [ODE TO TIME, SPACE, KNOWLEDGE](https://creativeinquiry.org/2023/07/25/ode-to-time-space-knowledge/) - Great Space remains infinite, accommodates everything, and yet "sets up" nothing and does nothing.
- [Kissed by Space](https://creativeinquiry.org/2023/04/17/kissed-by-space/) - Whether I notice you or not, you are always here, faithful presence...
- [Inquiry Comes First](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/09/30/inquiry-comes-first/) - When we fail to question the basic framework within which we are operating—when we do not even recognize that we could call it into question—we cut off our ability to appreciate, enjoy, understand, and accept. For the past fifteen years or so, I have been teaching almost exclusively TSK, along with a few of Rinpoche’s
- [Visions of Knowledge through Contemplation in Open Trance](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/07/19/visions-of-knowledge-through-contemplation-in-open-trance/) - A re-imagination and synopsis of a novel aid for creative inquiry by Jonathan Clewley, based on a yearlong study of Visions of Knowledge with Caroline Sherwood
- [Collection: Reality Painting](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/06/05/collection-reality-painting/) - If reality was like a painting, would you try to enter the imaginary space of the painting, or would you pull aside the canvas to catch the painter in the act of creation?
- [A Painter's Cave](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/06/02/a-painters-cave/) - Think of a painter as someone who attempts to capture reality. Not in a way that is most truthful to pure and plain existence, but in regards to what best illuminates their inner experience. In each of us, we experience a reality marred with the brushstrokes of our perception, formed by a combination of experiences
- [The Chain & Within](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/05/30/the-chain-within/) - All art is a process of capturing the past, the present and the future in one moment. It's a conversation I'm involved in. The more I listen, the more it opens.
- [Reflections on a Dark Week](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/05/25/reflections-on-a-dark-week/) - Sharing some personal reflections in response to the massacres at Tops grocery store and Robb Elementary school.
- [Sarah & Suspension, Convergence, Unity](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/05/20/sarah-suspension-convergence-unity/) - When aspects of the self are in a state of separation, full embodiment of one’s experience remains elusive, and our inner evolution slows to a state of suspension.
- [A Portrait of Misery](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/05/18/a-portrait-of-misery/) - I hate the smell of acrylic on my spoon as I scoop breakfast. This morning I had aubergine with a titanium white side. And when I drew the curtains they drew back streaks of ochre on my threadbare suit. Of course, there isn’t any thread at all. I wish that magic felt at
- [The Elixir of Life and other poems](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/05/14/the-elixir-of-life-and-other-poems/) - THE ELIXIR OF LIFE The Comte de Saint-Germaine exclaimed,“They forget I wrote Shakespeare’s plays!” Like every story, this one flirtedWith the idea of eternal youth. What would you do if you were thirtyYears old again? Would you change?Do the same or find it strange?How would you remain you? There is no way to paint a
- [Wondering Wanderer](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/05/09/wondering-wanderer/) - glamorous painter painting a reality changing at your will through your eyes, let me see the paints of your artistic world metaphysical being, show me the true nature of everything things of the universe, beyond my senses i can’t perceive sketch the designs in my mind, of the perpetual cosmos don’t block my soul with
- [Reality](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/05/07/reality/) - Creating the illusion of space When painting Is A Matter of shades. Recognizing the illusion in space When living Is A Matter of practice.
- [Reality Feinting](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/05/04/reality-feinting/) - the canvas is a perfect sphere about four feet in diameter floating over the floor of my studio that i don’t have a studio or have ever seen a canvas sphere let alone one floating three feet over the paint-spattered marble floor doesn’t matter because this is a dream the painter i
- [Tranquility of Space](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/04/04/tranquility-of-space/) - Practicing the “deep tranquility of space” as a “walking around” exercise. When I walked outside, I noticed it was quite windy; gusts of wind pushed on me and tossed my hair, and made the leaves around me dance with a loud whooshing. At first, this felt like an “impediment” to my practice, but then I
- [Embodying Space (A Guided TSK Inquiry)](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/04/01/embodying-space-a-guided-tsk-inquiry/) - Embodying Space is a guided meditation that I use in one of my favorite and most popular JFKU courses, Paradigms of Consciousness. Originally created in collaboration with Dr. Stephen Randall, the Embodying Space meditation is based on several “space” exercises from the Time-Space-Knowledge vision. It invites participants on a participatory journey to explore and transform
- [Beyond the Touching Points](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/03/30/beyond-the-touching-points/) - Unable to sleep, I decided to sit up and meditate. I felt good, enjoying the moment. My breath felt almost mint cool on the inside of my nostrils; the darkness behind my closed eyelids swirled with an almost green tint. My body felt warm and comfortable, energized. I felt the bottoms of my feet touching
- [Around Here](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/03/21/around-here/) - I feel as easy as a newt, A wavering light form Sustained by the warm waters Of a small pool, But it’s still a pool much larger than I could ever be, I see it as an atmosphere, An open spacious holding That is my everywhere, I know this as I know the roundness of
- [Playtime](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/03/14/playtime/) - Hey, a long gone spell’s been cast away, Witch works kicked over the moon, No curses anywhere, No more unjust blame, Secret doubts, Harborings of perfection, well genuflected flat out revenge, What will I ever do with all my spare time? I think I’ll puddle up my mind with Spring, I’ll bower the sunlight with
- [When it rains does space get wet?](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/03/09/when-it-rains-does-space-get-wet/) - Since inquiry is at the heart of the TSK vision, it seems appropriate that the title of the book, When it Rains Does Space Get Wet?, is itself a question. Of course, the warning not to settle for answers is thunderous in TSK, but I can’t resist trying to answer the author’s—Jack Petranker’s—question. Perhaps a
- [Space & Imagination](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/02/24/space-imagination/) - One of the approaches TSK encourages is speculation and imagination. In passages about Space through various texts, one image that is mentioned, and has seemed to be of interest to me, is the notion that the whole universe coming into being could not happen without Space. In some respects, there is this feeling of awe
- [Open Call: Reality Painting](https://creativeinquiry.org/2021/11/27/open-call-reality-painting/) - If reality was like a painting, would you try to enter the imaginary space of the painting, or would you pull aside the canvas to catch the painter in the act of creation?
- [Collection: Reflections of the Moon](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/01/21/collection-reflections-of-the-moon/) - For our first call for submissions to New Perspectives on Creative Inquiry, we asked our contributors to consider a passage adapted from Love of Knowledge, a book in the Time, Space, Knowledge series written by Tarthang Tulku. The passage brings our attention to sensory experience and the way we interpret and label that experience. What happens in
- [The Many Faces of Time](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/01/19/the-many-faces-of-time/) - My grandfather clock (not my grandfather’s, but named for the technology of another era) has stopped working well. It runs for a while and then stops. Not long ago, it ran as advertised (it is called an “eight-day clock”) and winding it once a week was enough. Now it no longer measures the flow of time
- [Reflection of the Moon](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/01/17/reflection-of-the-moon/) - Description of Work: Reflection of the Moon, 18" x 23", blue pigments in beeswax glaze binder. Description of Process: The center is spared as pure light. I slowly added layers of blue glaze around it, which had to dry in between, unfolding an increasing density of a shimmering, crystalline quality, creating depth. The source of
- [Reflection of Moon](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/01/15/reflection-of-moon/) - Reflection of Moon is a dynamic piece reflecting the energy of the moon emitting light. It is enhanced by the movement of the clouds and vibrant orange color of the moon.
- [Moon Glit*ch](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/01/13/moon-glitch/) - Moon Glit*ch was inspired by the Reflections of the Moon quote. The melody shows continual changes throughout, but at the same time gives a sense of familiarity
- [Invitation to Knowledge](https://creativeinquiry.org/2021/12/20/invitation-to-knowledge/) - Since the moment we are born, we share a worldview with our parents, relatives, friends, teachers and all the members of our society. We receive a collection of ideas and concepts that shape our view of the world and our attitudes, and that we assume to be true. We also share with all people the
- [My Motivation to Study TSK](https://creativeinquiry.org/2022/01/03/my-motivation-to-study-tsk/) - An old friend of mine was recently written up in the Albuquerque Journal because he has been a pie baking judge at the State Fair for many years. The journalist asked him why he always took such a large bite from every pie, considering that there are so many entries he has to sample. He
- [Why I Study Time, Space and Knowledge](https://creativeinquiry.org/2021/12/27/why-i-study-time-space-and-knowledge/) - I have been a psychotherapist for forty two years and would have burnt out twenty years ago were it not for the study of Time, Space and Knowledge. TSK gives a fresh view of self and others as well as a wider perspective on the situations and circumstances that surround our lives. It has become
- [Motivations to Study TSK](https://creativeinquiry.org/2021/12/15/motivations-to-study-tsk/) - Some words on my motivations to study TSK: All my life in my encounters with others, I have had a deep wish that “the other” could stretch themselves and expand their point of view to see and include mine. The way I have understood the vision of TSK, it encourages this way of inclusivity, no
- [A New Vision of Reality Ep. 3](https://creativeinquiry.org/2021/12/10/a-new-vision-of-reality-ep-3/) - A New Vision of Reality: TSK for the 21st Century is a new series exploring the Time-Space-Knowledge vision. TSK starts from the radical suggestion that deep, open-ended, sustained inquiry into time, space, and knowledge, as fundamental facets or elements of our being, can have a profoundly transformative impact on our ways of being and knowing
- [Moments Between Moments, part ii.](https://creativeinquiry.org/2021/12/01/moments-between-moments-part-ii/) - Normally, I’m engaged in a stream of activity as time seems to fly by. Just taking the time to observe this ‘flying by‘ has a slowing affect on the rapidity of these seemingly discrete and momentary attention-getters — it seems to introduce some space into the observation. But even with a little more space I
- [September](https://creativeinquiry.org/2021/12/06/september/) - Dry coastal woodlands, spare bird cries, and the muted surf Sounds as hollow, as the grey chill sky appears...
- [Inward Time](https://creativeinquiry.org/2021/11/29/inward-time/) - moving towards the back of the body down, in velvety texture whatever is defined, gathered, described – moving into that travelling through starscape; knowledge pulsing entering the travelling itself entering the entering very still; very swift Image by jplenio from Pixabay
- [Not my summer reading TSK](https://creativeinquiry.org/2021/11/24/not-my-summer-reading-tsk/) - Sometimes I’m struck with how unable I would ever have been to appreciate recent readings in “Dynamics of Time and Space” without the support of Jack Petranker and the online TSK class. Imagining myself reclining at the beach and dozing off over another “interesting” alternative view of life as I know it, I realize that
- [Moments Between Moments, part i.](https://creativeinquiry.org/2021/11/10/moments-between-moments-part-i/) - Observe in your own experience the flow of time from one moment to the next. If the mind is calm and alert, you may notice that between two initially observed moments, lie other, intermediate moments… At first, I settled in to ‘catch’ a moment, an event in time that I could establish as the starting moment, but
- [A New Vision of Reality Ep. 2](https://creativeinquiry.org/2021/11/08/a-new-vision-of-reality-ep-2/) - TSK for the 21st Century - an interview with Ron Purser, a long-time TSK practitioner...
- [DEADLINE EXTENDED - Open Call: Reflection of the Moon](https://creativeinquiry.org/2021/11/03/open-call-reflection-of-the-moon/) - If the eye sees the moon reflected in the waters of a river, the present experience is the continuously changing flow of water illuminated by the light of the moon. But then we name it, calling it ‘the reflection of the moon.’ We verify the truth of that name in each succeeding moment. Repeatedly confirming
- [Dawn Spell](https://creativeinquiry.org/2021/11/01/dawn-spell/) - I am the blue air open sky today, I bear the seed of light, The living dawn core radiance, The break up of the night spell, The unwavering build Of the forward driving Mantric day rush, The loom first known in gull cry, Sensed by eye lift And tongue riff,
- [Skywriting](https://creativeinquiry.org/2021/11/15/skywriting/) - What do I have to do with the sky? It doesn’t drape me With a living curtain like the sea, Doesn’t open me to coral Or to moving shoals Dense With the calligraphic Passages of streaming fish, It’s just the sky, It’s hard to read, Easier
- [A Shower of Jewels](https://creativeinquiry.org/2021/10/18/a-shower-of-jewels/) - One of the things I love most about TSK is the invitation to look where we never think to look to take note of what we commonly ‘over’look, focusing on “the immediacy of presence, [in which] a single thought, a single connection, a single unexpected phrase or turn of inquiry may reveal a new knowledge
- [Practice Notes: Generative (En)closures](https://creativeinquiry.org/2021/10/27/practice-notes-generative-enclosures/) - It is evening and I have come to walk the labyrinth under the trees. Following the winding narrow paths between the rows of stone, looping around the same patch of earth again and again from new directions, I think about space as a mode of accommodation, as a boundless allowing. I am struck by the
- [Using Time to Open Knowing](https://creativeinquiry.org/2021/10/15/using-time-to-open-knowing/) - Sit quietly and relax tension in both body and mind. Start with a focus on the breath. Breathe naturally, without special effort, and let mind and awareness join with the breath, until you experience a sense of deep relaxation. Let this relaxation flow through the body, with a special focus on loosening the gut. As
- [Juggling a few beads at once](https://creativeinquiry.org/2021/10/07/juggling-a-few-beads-at-once/) - Last night, walking the dogs in a brisk desert wind, old feelings arose from a morning in Canada, standing at the edge of a field, snow melting, and the pine boughs singing in a springtime breeze. Then this morning, I looked out the large windows of our sun-room and saw the branches of trees tossing
- [A New Vision of Reality Ep. 1](https://creativeinquiry.org/2021/10/08/a-new-vision-of-reality-ep-1/) - A New Vision of Reality: TSK for the 21st Century is a new series exploring the Time-Space-Knowledge vision. TSK starts from the radical suggestion that deep, open-ended, sustained inquiry into time, space, and knowledge, as fundamental facets or elements of our being, can have a profoundly transformative impact on our ways of being and knowing

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## Events

- [Make Music Day in Berkeley](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/make-music-day-in-berkeley/) - Join CCI in celebrating Berkeley's Make Music Day on Sunday, June 21st! We will be using our space as a venue for 3 talented musicians throughout the day, with performances at 11am-12pm, 12:30-1:30, and, at 2:30-3:30, a performance by the talented violinist Pyper will be led as a joint contemplative practice. Be sure to mark
- [Book launch for One with the World](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/one-with-the-world/) - Center for Creative Inquiry is pleased to host the book launch for a new title by Jack Petranker, the founder of CCI and its Senior Teacher. One with the World builds on Jack’s work in developing Full Presence Mindfulness, an innovative approach to living your life fully. Through carefully crafted experiential exercises and thoughtful, engaging
- [Full Presence Mindfulness Teacher Training Series](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/fpm-teacher-training-series/) - Taught by Morgan Wells Full Presence Mindfulness (FPM) is a way of practicing mindfulness that centers the whole field of experience as a gateway to full presence. It asks us to look at the roots of our mental patterns and the world that we think we know, touching on every dimension of the field of
- [Center for Creative Inquiry - Open House](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/cci-open-house/) - Open House Join us for an afternoon of mindfulness and inquiry in the heart of Berkeley. Whether you are browsing the book festival or heading back to your car, we invite you to refresh your perspective with a free practice session. 1:15 PM – Be Quiet and Eat a Cookie Led by Morgan Wells Experience
- [TSK Integration](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/tsk-integration/) - The Freedom of Letting Go: Time, Space and Knowledge Explorations with Ignacio Ercole This series of talks are based on Time, Space, and Knowledge Vision guided by the unifying theme of letting go. Often, we hold too tightly to the grip of linear time, the solidity of fixed boundaries, or the certainty of a
- [Out of Your Head and into Your Life](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/out-of-your-head-and-into-your-life/) - With Jack Petranker April 25 - May 9, Saturdays from 10:00 - 11:30am Pacific, Three weeks Online via Zoom Cost: $100 We mostly live in a world built up out of the stories we tell and the judgments we make. We dwell on the past and worry about the future, judge ourselves and others, and
- [Renewing the World in Every Moment](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/renewing-the-world-in-every-moment/) - With Jack Petranker, Senior Teacher This series of talks are based on Time, Space, and Knowledge Vision guided by the unifying theme of letting go. Often, we hold too tightly to the grip of linear time, the solidity of fixed boundaries, or the certainty of a self-centered knowledge. These habits and points of views
- [How to Be More Fully Alive](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/how-to-be-more-fully-alive/) - Learning to Surf the Dynamic of Time With Jack Petranker TSK Retreat, Neu Plaue Germany, September 20 - 26 2026 At the edge of the future, time sparkles; in the richness of feeling and energy, time glows. When we find such special places and learn to let them expand or deepen, we discover time
- [Knowledge: Decentering the Self](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/knowledge-decentering-the-self/) - Join us for the 3rd event of our series The Freedom of Letting Go: Time, Space and Knowledge Explorations with Ignacio Ercole This series of talks are based on Time, Space, and Knowledge Vision guided by the unifying theme of letting go. Often, we hold too tightly to the grip of linear time, the
- [Living Without Stress, a retreat at Ratna Ling Retreat Center](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/living-without-stress/) - With Jack Petranker and Gretchen Donovan July 31 - August 2, 2026 Register now Ratna Ling brings together two powerful and expert teachers to help you find more freedom and ease in your life! Tension and stress don’t arise only from busy calendars—they come from the deeper ways we’ve learned to interpret our lives,
- [Time: Loosening the Grip of Linear Time](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/time-loosening-the-grip-of-linear-time/) - Join us for the second event of our new series The Freedom of Letting Go: Time, Space and Knowledge Explorations with Ignacio Ercole Four talks based on Time, Space, and Knowledge Vision guided by the unifying theme of letting go. Often, we hold too tightly to the grip of linear time, the solidity of
- [The Complexity of the Intimate](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/the-complexity-of-the-intimate/) - with Adrian Roman Saturday, January 31st & Saturday, February 7th 12pm - 3pm Eastern (9am - 12am Pacific) Online via Zoom Cost: $50 “The Complexity of the Intimate” is a two-part, experiential workshop that explores intimacy not just as romantic closeness, but as the everyday ways we learn to be present, honest, and connected with
- [Unfreezing the Future](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/unfreezing-the-future/) - Dealing with Change by Riding the Dynamic of Time with Jack Petranker Today, more than ever, change is the only constant. We try to deal with it by making plans and trying to make them happen: I’ll live here; I’ll succeed in my career; I’ll have great children. But how does that work out in
- [Space: Beyond the Fixation on Solidity](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/space-beyond-the-fixation-on-solidity/) - Join us in the first event of our new series The Freedom of Letting Go: Time, Space and Knowledge Explorations with Ignacio Ercole Four talks based on Time, Space, and Knowledge Vision guided by the unifying theme of letting go. Often, we hold too tightly to the grip of linear time, the solidity of fixed
- [Annual FPM Retreat](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/annual-fpm-retreat/) - Full Presence Mindfulness draws on the teachings of Tibetan Lama Tarthang Tulku as presented in his Time, Space, Knowledge books, recasting those teachings as a field-centered way of practicing mindfulness. FPM is designed to open every dimension of our experience —sensations, emotions, thoughts, and how we connect with others. It offers a new way of
- [Challenging Polarization](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/challenging-polarization/) - How Nondual Awareness Can Transform Our Most Challenging Divides In an age of seemingly endless tension and stark opposition, it's easy to feel frozen—stuck in patterns of thought that only deepen our divides. This talk introduces the Time, Space Knowledge vision (TSK) and its potential as a path toward letting go of rigid structures, not
- [Playful Presence](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/playful-presence/) - A Beginner's Journey Into Mindfulness Weekly on Tuesdays, starting November 4, 5pm-6pm Pacific (8pm-9pm Eastern) FREE Online via Zoom What is mindfulness? It’s common to see the term tossed around in all sorts of ways. Sometimes it’s a gentle nudge to “pay attention,” other times it’s offered as a tool to calm down when life
- [The Courage to Confide](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/the-courage-to-confide/) - October 25 - 26, 11am-2pm Eastern (8am - 11am Pacific) Online via Zoom Cost: $50 Stop chasing shadows and uncover the courage to confide. Join us for an immersive weekend of practice and reflection. Session 1: Stop Chasing Shadows - Finding Your Ground We begin with the fundamental shift from reactive patterns to responsive presence.
- [Seeing Clearly](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/seeing-clearly/) - Introduction to Full Presence mindfulness (FPM) Tuesdays, September 16 - October 7 (4 weeks) 6:15 - 7:45pm Cost: $40 - $120 (see codes below) Student discount: $10 2210 Harold Way, Berkeley, CA 94704 Uncover hidden dimensions in your daily life through the practice of Full Presence mindfulness. By decentering ourselves and tuning into the
- [The Time of our Lives](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/the-time-of-our-lives/) - Time as we experience it is completely different from the linear past-present-future structure we impose on it. When we reconnect with the inner dynamic of time, our lives become rich in meaning and appreciation. In this workshop, we will explore in our own experience what it means to live in the heart of time, a
- [What is Creative Inquiry?](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/what-is-creative-inquiry/) - We are the Center for Creative Inquiry (CCI)... but what is creative inquiry? Join us at our inaugural event at our new space at 2210 Harold Way in Berkeley for a discussion and Q&A with CCI directors Jack Petranker and Morgan Wells. At its core, "creating" is about making something new, and "inquiry" is about
- [Learning to Be More Conscious, a retreat at Ratna Ling Retreat Center](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/learning-to-be-more-conscious/) - "When the story is its telling, appearance is its appearing . . . We touch the lightness of being; we fuse with light.” Tarthang Tulku, Dynamics of Time and Space When we find ourselves stuck in habit patterns and dullness, emotions and worries, it’s a sure sign that we are operating at low levels of
- [Arising Freely in Awareness](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/arising-freely/) - Annual Time Space Knowledge Retreat Europe by Jack Petranker Sept 16 – 21 Neu Plaue Retreat Center, Germany Based on the book Knowledge of Time & Space by Tibetan Lama Tarthang Tulku. The retreat is held in the beautiful Neu Plaue Retreat Center in Germany. It is in person only. This retreat is a
- [Putting the Self in Its Place: A Four Week Online Course](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/putting-the-self-in-its-place-650/) - Taught by Jack Petranker Sundays, February 23 - March 16, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Pacific *PLEASE NOTE THE SCHEDULED TIME HAS SHIFTED FORWARD BY 30 MINUTES Sliding scale: $40 - $120 Online via Zoom Because we put the self and its concerns at the center of experience, we get caught in emotions and
- [Mountain Listening](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/mountain-listening/) - Join us for a guided online meditation | A benefit to help raise funds for the NowHere project Led by Morgan Wells Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 9 am Published in 2023, NowHere is a guidebook that encourages children aged 10-14 to mindfully explore their experience while honoring their own capacity to question and
- [Making Space](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/making-space/) - with Morgan Wells Saturdays 10am - 11:30am PST from October 26 - November 16, 2024 Sliding scale: $40 - $120 Online via Zoom Whatever we make of our lives, whatever we discover in the world around us, it is because space has made it available. Tarthang Tulku, Sacred Dimensions of Time & Space We
- [What Does it Mean to be Free](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/what-does-it-mean-to-be-free/) - Annual Time Space Knowledge Retreat Europe by Jack Petranker Sept 24 – 29 Neu Plaue Retreat Center, Germany The retreat What Does it Mean to be Free is based on the book Love of Knowledge by Tibetan Lama Tarthang Tulku. The retreat is held in the beautiful Neu Plaue Retreat Center in Germany. It
- [Timeless Presence](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/timeless-presence/) - A Non-Dual Approach to integrating Tibetan Yoga and Full Presence Mindfulness with Ignacio Ercole Thursdays 7am - 8am PST from September 12 - October 10, 2024 Join us for a transformative class that blends the ancient wisdom of Kum Nye Tibetan Yoga with the profound insights of Full Presence Mindfulness. Kum Nye, rooted in
- [Love of Music](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/love-of-music/) - A Time, Space and Knowledge journey into Music, Mind and Being Weekly Wednesdays 5-6:00pm Online via Zoom This course invites a transformative exploration of music, guiding participants on a musical journey to deeper levels of listening and understanding. In this class, sound and listening will be the central aspect in an inquiry into reality,
- [Opening Time and Space](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/opening-time-and-space/) - An Introduction to the TSK Vision August 17, 10-11:30 am Pacific, repeating weekly for 4 weeks (ends Sept. 7) 3 levels: $40 (scholarship), $80 (regular), and $120 (supporter) Online via Zoom We inhabit space and act in time: nothing could be more obvious. But the Time-Space-Knowledge Vision introduced by Tarthang Tulku is all about
- [The Gravity of the Past](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/the-gravity-of-past/) - Creative Inquiry into the Law Series with Morgan Wells Online via Zoom Gravity is the force that attracts objects toward one another in proportion to their mass. It holds the planets in orbit and us to the ground. Gravity is also the term we use to refer to something that is serious or weighty. This
- [Being Fully Present](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/being-fully-present/) - A retreat at Ratna Ling Retreat Center with Jack Petranker and Ignacio Ercole For many of us with busy and fast-paced lives, we find that feelings of stress, overwhelm, irritation, or anger arise more frequently than we would like. This causes strain in our relationships at home and at work. The antidote for difficult and
- [A Bundle of Sticks](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/bundle-of-sticks/) - Creative Inquiry into the Law Series with Morgan Wells Online via Zoom While our culture often emphasizes the solid “thingness” of property, the legal system views real and personal property quite differently. This talk explores how an understanding of property rights might help loosen subject-object duality. Morgan Wells (she/her) is the Executive Director of Center
- [The Power of Not Knowing](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/the-power-of-not-knowing/) - Creative Inquiry into the Law Series with Morgan Wells Online via Zoom Many of our legal systems in the United States are centered on conflict between two opposing sides. Whether it is the adversarial model of justice or the two-party political system, we have adopted mechanisms for making decisions that assume the best outcome will
- [TSK Practice Club](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/tsk-practice-club/) - Topic: Unknown (ha ha joke) Time Space Knowledge is a western modality that teases our experience as usual to open to rich possibilities. In this dialogue based gathering, we will read some texts, practice with exercises from the books and discuss experiences. This group will be lightly held by a facilitator with the aim of
- [Full Presence Mindfulness Gatherings](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/full-presence-mindfulness-gatherings/) - Weekly Drop in Full Presence Mindfulness Led Online by Adrian Roman (he/él) In this space, we will explore different paths to being with experience fully. Can we return to the richness of life through listening, seeing, having conversation and even thinking? These are the questions we will be engaging in this group dialogue centered space.
- [Day Spell Book Launch & Signing](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/day-spell-book-launch-signing/) - with author Ken McKeon and illustrator Ignacio Ercole Saturday, November 11, 2023 Reading at 2 pm Reception and signing at 3 pm Ken McKeon grew up in Southern California, and has been writing poetry most of his almost 80 years. His output has been prodigious: well over a thousand poems to date, and they keep
- [Introduction to Full Presence Mindfulness • June 2023](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/intro-to-fpm-jun2023/) - There are 10 free spots in the workshop - enter code INTROFPM during registration. Please do not take a code if you do not intend to attend the workshop. Full Presence Mindfulness (FPM) offers a unified vision of who we are and how we can bring about meaningful change. Grounded in the present moment,
- [Exploring Sacred Dimensions of Time & Space](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/sacred-dimensions/) - The knowledge that seems most self-evident is this: ‘I am here’. Suppose we make this knowledge our starting point. Can we awaken curiosity about the significance of this statement? This course accepts this invitation from Tarthang Tulku’s book, Sacred Dimensions of Time and Space. We will tap into the group’s creativity and curiosity to explore,
- [The Art of Seeing](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/the-art-of-seeing/) - Using practices from Full Presence Mindfulness: A Pocket Companion, we learn a relaxed way of seeing that encourages intimacy with whatever appears in the field of experience. After a brief orientation to Full Presence Mindfulness, students will go on a walkabout and return with photographs to share. This class is a way to play with
- [Full Presence Mindfulness: An Introduction](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/full-presence-mindfulness-an-introduction/) - Full Presence Mindfulness (FPM) is mindfulness differently. It looks at the way the mind works and how we live our lives, and asks how it could be otherwise. So often we are lost in our thoughts, caught up in our emotions, and distracted by our concerns. The first step in changing these patterns is to
- [Healing Time in Neu Plaue, Germany](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/save-the-date-tsk-retreat-in-neu-plaue-germany/) - Retreat with Jack Petranker in Neu Plaue Retreat Center Germany October 17-22, 2023 We live on the surface of time, moving from moment to moment without ever really connecting with time’s inner dynamic. Cut off from the depth of experience, we easily feel frustrated, isolated, emotional, and resentful. It doesn’t have to be that way. We
- [Healing Time, a retreat at Ratna Ling Retreat Center](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/healing-time/) - We live on the surface of time, moving from moment to moment without ever really connecting with time’s inner dynamic. Cut off from the depth of experience, we easily feel frustrated, isolated, emotional, and resentful. It doesn’t have to be that way. We can heal our connection to time, and discover that time is the
- [Embody the Current 4-week Class](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/embody-the-current-class/) - Take a moment to notice what occurs when you become aware of the flow of time - an experience of the future unfolding. Like the current of a river, the flow happens without any special effort. Tuning into this dynamic energy of Time can develop a unique way of Being that may support more availability
- [Embody the Current](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/embody-the-current/) - Take a moment to notice what occurs when you become aware of the flow of time - an experience of the future unfolding. Like the current of a river, the flow happens without any special effort. Tuning into this dynamic energy of Time can develop a unique way of Being that may support more availability
- [Introduction to Full Presence Mindfulness • January 2023](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/intro-to-fpm-jan2023/) - There are 10 free spots in the workshop - enter code JANUARY during registration. Please do not take a code if you do not intend to attend the workshop. Full Presence Mindfulness (FPM) offers a unified vision of who we are and how we can bring about meaningful change. Grounded in the present moment, this
- [Introduction to Full Presence Mindfulness • December 2022](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/intro-to-fpm-dec2022/) - There are 10 free spots in the workshop - enter code DECEMBER during registration. Please do not take a code if you do not intend to attend the workshop. Full Presence Mindfulness (FPM) offers a unified vision of who we are and how we can bring about meaningful change. Grounded in the present moment, this
- [Introducción a Full Presence Mindfulness • Diciembre 2022](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/introduccion-a-full-presence-mindfulness-dec2022/) - Hay 10 lugares gratuitos para realizar el workshop: ingrese el código DICIEMBRE durante el registro. No se registre con el código si no tiene la intención de asistir al taller. Full Presence Mindfulness (FPM) ofrece una visión unificada de quiénes somos y cómo podemos lograr un cambio significativo en nuestras vidas. Basada en el momento
- [Introducción a Full Presence Mindfulness • Enero 2022](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/introduccion-a-full-presence-mindfulness-enero2022/) - Hay 10 lugares gratuitos para realizar el workshop: ingrese el código ENERO durante el registro. No se registre con el código si no tiene la intención de asistir al taller. Full Presence Mindfulness (FPM) ofrece una visión unificada de quiénes somos y cómo podemos lograr un cambio significativo en nuestras vidas. Basada en el momento
- [Playful Presence on Thursdays](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/playful_presence/) - Where we contemplate life through meditative exploration, inquiry & conversation A Contemplative Drop in Class The intention is to sit with ourselves and our community to contemplate our experience through meditation practices. With these practices, we can learn to better understand the mechanism of our mind. If we begin to understand how mind operates, we
- [Playful Presence: where we contemplate life through meditative exploration, inquiry & conversation](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/inter-resting-479/) - A Contemplative Drop in Class The intention is to sit with ourselves and our community to contemplate our experience through meditation practices. With these practices, we can learn to better understand the mechanism of our mind. If we begin to understand how mind operates, we can then intentionally cultivate our relationship to mind and our
- [Introduction to Full Presence Mindfulness • October 2022](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/introduction-to-full-presence-mindfulness-oct2022/) - Full Presence Mindfulness (FPM) offers a unified vision of who we are and how we can bring about meaningful change. Grounded in the present moment, this unique way of practicing mindfulness opens every dimension of the field of experience—our sensations, emotions and thoughts as well our values and intentions. In this online workshop, we will
- [Introducción a Full Presence Mindfulness • Octubre 2022](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/introduccion-a-full-presence-mindfulness-11oct2022/) - Full Presence Mindfulness (FPM) ofrece una visión unificada de quiénes somos y cómo podemos lograr un cambio significativo en nuestras vidas. Basada en el momento presente, esta forma única de practicar mindfulness abre todas las dimensiones del campo de la experiencia: nuestras sensaciones, emociones y pensamientos, así como nuestros valores e intenciones. En este taller
- [Introducción a Full Presence Mindfulness](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/introduccion-a-full-presence-mindfulness/) - Full Presence Mindfulness (FPM) ofrece una visión unificada de quiénes somos y cómo podemos lograr un cambio significativo en nuestras vidas. Basada en el momento presente, esta forma única de practicar mindfulness abre todas las dimensiones del campo de la experiencia: nuestras sensaciones, emociones y pensamientos, así como nuestros valores e intenciones. En este taller
- [Saying "Yes" to Experience](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/saying-yes-to-experience/) - Learn how to activate the radical immediacy available within our ordinary experience. We are pleased to offer this summer retreat at Ratna Ling Retreat Center in Sonoma County, one of the premier retreat centers in Northern California (www.ratnaling.org). The self has a strong impulse toward the therapeutic, toward making knowledge into something that can
- [Saying Yes to Experience Mini-Retreat Online](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/saying-yes-to-experience-mini-retreat-online/) - Invitation for online participation in Ratna Ling TSK Retreat July 17-21 For people who cannot attend the July retreat, there will be an opportunity to participate online. Here is a description of how this will work: Five online sessions All online sessions will be ninety minutes long. The first session will be held Sunday, July
- [Introduction to Full Presence Mindfulness](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/introduction-to-full-presence-mindfulness/) - Full Presence Mindfulness (FPM) offers a unified vision of who we are and how we can bring about meaningful change. Grounded in the present moment, this unique way of practicing mindfulness opens every dimension of the field of experience—our sensations, emotions and thoughts as well our values and intentions. In this online workshop, we will
- [Living Time Space Knowledge Vision](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/living-time-space-knowledge-vision/) - Unpacking the Mountain Retreat & Giant Body Exercises Revealing the Wholeness of the Vision Hayward M. Fox, Ph.D. Online via Zoom Hayward has been a psychotherapist for fifty years and a student of Time, Space, Knowledge forty of those years. He reports that an integrative knowledge has emerged. He says, “Knowledge of time and
- [Respiración y Sonido • May 23th 2pm Pacific Time](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/breath-sound-may-spanish/) - Un viaje musical a través de Full Presence Mindfulness Full Presence Mindfulness (FPM) nos ayuda a profundizar en el océano de mindfulness. Practicar FPM nos permite experimentar la vida como un todo integrado y abrir una sensación de sentirnos más plenos y vivos. Uno de los enfoques de FPM es a través de la escucha
- [Breath and Sound • May 26 9am Pacific Time](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/breath-sound-may-2022/) - A musical journey through Full Presence Mindfulness Full Presence Mindfulness (FPM) helps us to go deeper in the ocean of mindfulness. Practicing FPM allows us to experience life as an integrated whole and open a sense of feeling more fulfilled and alive. One of the approaches of FPM is through listening, a gateway to new
- [Mindfulness en Acción • May 16 2pm Pacific Time](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/mia-bringing-ease-to-heart-mind-840/) - Nuestra serie Mindfulness en Acción explora cómo aplicar mindfulness en el día a día, ya sea mientras trabajamos, cocinamos, comemos, planificamos y nos relacionamos con los demás. Este taller esta orientado a aquellas personas que quieren sostener su meditación a lo largo del día o usar las actividades cotidianas como práctica de meditación. En el
- [Breath & Sound](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/breath-sound-april-2022/) - Have you ever gotten lost in the richness of music - a striking moment of tenderness and intimacy? Maybe you rode that moment into the rest of your day? Music is a force that goes beyond entertainment and can unfold life's richness. In this workshop, we will be working with the ‘Just Listening’ practice from
- [Bringing Ease to Heart & Mind](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/mia-bringing-ease-to-heart-mind/) - Our Mindfulness in Action Series explores how to apply mindfulness to the things you do every day—working and playing, cooking and eating, planning and parenting. Whether you are interested in self-care, relaxation, or finding deeper meaning, you can start with bringing awareness to the ordinary activities that make up your life. In the first workshop
- [Breath & Sound](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/breath-sound/) - Have you ever gotten lost in the richness of music - a striking moment of tenderness and intimacy? Maybe you rode that moment into the rest of your day? Music is a force that goes beyond entertainment and can unfold life's richness. In this workshop, we will be working with the ‘Just Listening’ practice from
- [The Self in Question](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/the-self-in-question/) - Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them. Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way Our world is shaped by space, time, and knowledge. Events happen in time, the reality we know appears
- [Skillful Means in Daily Life](https://creativeinquiry.org/events/skillful-means-in-daily-life/) - Be fully present day and night, enhancing the quality of your life. Feel open and curious, having body, breath and mind working together as a whole. Share understanding and compassion in whatever situation happens, resting on internal stability that pervades time, space and knowledge with positive energy. Notice how your soft and regular breathing touches

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