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Author Archives: Michael Gray
From Inside the Future
Reading the sad story of how we helplessly, hopelessly conduct a dreary sameness forward, two lighter thoughts came to the rescue this morning: 1/ the strange statement in an earlier chapter that we contact the dynamic of time from inside … Continue reading
Conducting the already known
Yesterday evening there was an ad on TV in which ordinary-seeming people were proclaiming how wrong-headed it would be to tax domestic exploration for gas and oil. That would hurt ordinary people like us. I wasn’t really paying much attention, … Continue reading
Fear at the edge
I’ve been noticing that (I suspect unlike some of the other participants in this program) I haven’t maintained a strong enough meditation practice to deeply experience what it’s like to inhabit time in a new way: to explore the margins … Continue reading
Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson
I was struck by Jack’s mention of Ouspensky and Gurdjieff (in Sunday’s call), since it was these writers who helped me to become open to Buddhism and TSK. Gurdjieff promised three series of writing: the first to destroy his reader’s illusions that … Continue reading
Available Now
Sometimes the TSK vision seems to ask us to repeal all our existing perspectives and notions of how reality works. And sometimes it points directly at what we have always believed, but does so in a way that animates these … Continue reading
An Incomplete Thought
There’s a sentence in this week’s reading (middle of Page 87), “The ever unfolding sequences move toward increasing dimensionalization: the multiple pronouncing of what has been recorded.” This reminds me of another sentence, in the previous unit, where we studied how … Continue reading
Tapestry of Presence
I was taken aback by an image on Page 77 of DTS: the suggestion that our “concern” could allow us to view the present as encompassing entire geologic eras. My immediate thought was that a longer span of time can … Continue reading
Three times, three personalities
Three responses arose in me to three different parts of the LOK chapter for this week: 1/ The retreat into feelings is all too familiar, fortunately from an earlier time in my life; 2/ The dedication to controlling how my … Continue reading
Waiting for Knowledge
Rereading the 3rd paragraph of LOK 150 for the third time, I realized something: I am living out the process being described in what I’m reading.  Just as the self turns toward a future in which it hopes to find satisfaction … Continue reading
Beyond Allegiances
Have you ever noticed that sometimes, reading TSK’s incisive critiques of ordinary knowledge, a protest stirs within and you say, “but I do feel something beyond this ordinariness”? And can this actually be a recognition of a way out of the ordinariness being critiqued? … Continue reading