Author Archives: Michael Gray

This morning’s conference call left me with two images: 1/ about the field mechanism that reaches forward in time, my first thought was forward into the future (a presumption of “linear time”?), but then I realized that this forward transmission … Continue reading →

On the eighth day Adam and Eve invented Post- It’s (3″ x 3″ yellow pieces of paper with a sticky edge) and they called them “good”.  From thenceforth if anything quacked like a duck and walked like a duck, they … Continue reading →

Jack emphasized, in going over the second full paragraph on Page 247, how it  urges us to remain within direct experience.  It  is also interesting that these few sentences invoke the Past, the Present, and the Future.  Specifically: A way … Continue reading →

For the past several months I’ve been rereading the Skillful Means series alongside our TSK studies.  I appreciate how these two different approaches reinforce a shared concern with living with awareness and purpose.  This morning, on Page 42 of Mastering … Continue reading →

A shark needs to keep moving in order to remain alive.  Otherwise it would die for lack of oxygen.  I wonder if the human mind needs to keep thinking in order not to sink to the bottom of its ocean. … Continue reading →

In our final call for the year last Sunday, Jack asked how working with the original TSK book has compared to our earlier experiences with TSK books published later.  Thinking about this since, it came to me that I have … Continue reading →

Trying to connect the concept of “read-outs” with the third level promise that “Intimacy is” has caused me to see how I equate such admirable qualities as compassion, empathy, communication and intimacy with acts of reaching out.  Loneliness, isolation, depression … Continue reading →

I’ve been remembering Arthur Koestler’s book, with the above title, this week because of a new bizarre connection which has surfaced (adding to a group of similarly implausible coincidences in my experience).  One of the previous ones was that my … Continue reading →

During Sunday’s call, when Jack was presenting the perspective that perhaps it is the span of a particular interest that defines a moment for us, I found myself thinking that there has to be another factor operating.  It seems that … Continue reading →