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Acts of Positioning
Session 6, Assignment for Week 3. Jack asked “Are acts of positioning the same as Timed-out Meanings?†A distinction seems indicated between attention to what is happening in the present (looked at as gestures witnessed from within) and a focus … Continue reading
A Mirror and its Reflection (a thought experiment)
Session 6, Assignment for Week 2.  In the film “Gravity†there is a scene in which Sandra Bullock is spinning wildly in open space after an explosion has torn apart their space station and flung the astronauts afield. This scene … Continue reading
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Bystander in from the Cold
Session 5, Assignment for Week 6. Q: Why study about By-standers and Outside-standers? A: Well, knowing that my methods of knowing are flawed helps me to not expect accuracy or clairvoyance from my bias-stander perspective of outside-standers. Realizing that my … Continue reading
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If Not Me—then Who?
(Session 5, Assignment for Week 5).     I can see the limitations of the self. This morning the fallibility of the particular self who lives in this body is much with me. As a parent and husband, I … Continue reading
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The Witness in another light.
Jack suggested as a writing assignment to read a couple of references to “the witness†in LOK and compare them to how the witness is treated in the current readings. The recent class readings from Love of Knowledge have been … Continue reading
Session 5, assignment for week 3
We all Got Rhythm Rhythm, the witness, acts of conducting, all seem to be qualities of experience that are naturally free but which are easily co-opted by a self who doesn’t like to dance, is unobservant, and mechanically conducts whatever … Continue reading
Singing in the Field
I like to stand in the shower, like a horse in the racket of the rain. But once, when I was younger and more susceptible, I drew a tub of hot water. I was living with a girlfriend who was … Continue reading
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Session 4, Assignment 6
Shifting Fields      I can feel the invitation in this week’s readings, assignments and orientation notes to open up to a more living engagement with life. Yet a familiar tone of limitation continues to affect everything. … Continue reading
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Level One Knowledge
–Knock, knock- –Who’s there? –Hi. Â I’m an alien from another galaxy –I’m so glad you speak English –Actually, my species has developed a universal translation device. Â But don’t ask me how it works? –Wow. Â I guess your species must be … Continue reading
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Session 4, assignment 5
Fields of Feeling (KTS 381-383) This short chapter considers the influence of feeling in experience. It employs the image of a ‘field’ in a similar way as have recent readings: the field is both influenced by and an influence upon … Continue reading