Author Archives: Michael Gray

Jack’s post on the Arrogance of SETI has me pondering my own way of limiting what I am willing to know.  Looking at our Technological Model of knowledge, as we have been doing, we can see how we tailor our … Continue reading →

I wonder if there are others who, like me, look on this website quite often, see that it’s kind of quiet, wonder if they could say something, but the threshold of insight isn’t reached enough to feel that they have anything … Continue reading →

In this morning’s conference call, discussing how the self’s reliance on models still shows up when we search for knowledge through tradition, feeling, or deference to the transcendent, I kept thinking of the phrase “pang of conscience”.  When we are stopped … Continue reading →

Then I’m sure I would identify with the river banks through which I flowed, would feel more powerful when swollen with the spring run-off , and I would narrate many stories about the droughts and floods I had witnessed.  I … Continue reading →

An interesting side-effect of studying TSK is that writers who were once important to me come to mind in the course of contemplating TSK insights.  One writer is George Gurdjieff.  However, our study of the role models play, in interpreting experience, … Continue reading →

Jack’s notes for this week included a very paradoxical claim: “the self itself is a story told by the self.”  My own self protests: surely everything has a cause outside of itself.”  And the example given, a few sentences later, … Continue reading →

Doing the brief practice in yesterday’s conference call, I enjoyed the feeling of allowing the body to breathe in its own time and space, without undue interference from the controlling self.  So I thought: this is a taste of awareness, … Continue reading →

It’s so easy to agree with TSK statements, since they’ve so often proved true in the past, and then not really test them out in life.  On the first page of chapter 16 I had an uncharacteristic reaction.  Two words … Continue reading →