Author Archives: Michael Gray

I find Chapter 20 of DTS evokes for me the times in my life when I have felt most despairing and also how at my lowest point something healing would intervene.  The description of being imprisioned in hopelessness (“As thought stumbles … Continue reading →

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been connecting the recently assigned TSK material (about how our sensations involve both inner and outer light) with the situation of people with whom I work and who have the neuromuscular diseases, ALS … Continue reading →

Among the questions on Page xxxvii of SDTS is: “(can we) Express the meaning of experience?”  I am reminded of a claim made by George Santayana that I read decades ago, in which he says that the beauty of Plato’s … Continue reading →

I’ve always felt that I have very little capacity for visualization of any kind.  So I start a practice that invites me to visualize not just one but an expanding bubble of lights with a dim conviction that this exercise can … Continue reading →

One final post, in the five minutes available this morning: I’ve really appreciated this on-line class on time and intend to register for the next class on Light.  This morning I had a satisfying thought about my relationship with time: … Continue reading →

Hi, I really appreciated the experiential vividness of the last three posts (Arthur, David, Marcia).  My own experience of the exercise in the last two paragraphs of DTS 99 is helping me to understand the recent readings.  In particular, the … Continue reading →

“Does each earlier moment already encompass within it the potential for all succeeding moments of time?” (LOK 122)  This invokes for me the more local issue of how a single cell can contain all that is needed for the evolution … Continue reading →

In LOK chapter 14, I appreciate the painstaking analysis of how descriptive knowledge–in order to be legitimately based on polar knowledge–requires three things: access to the contents of polar knowledge; accuracy of polar knowledge itself; and an existing world to … Continue reading →

How does the body point at the mind, and how could I beome aware of this pointing?  Would awareness then be in the body or the mind?  Breathing seems a good place to look, since both body (Involuntary) and mind … Continue reading →

As my mind ponders how (or if) my body really points to my mind, it occurs to me that the act of breathing–with its voluntary (mind-directed) and involuntary (body-directed) triggers–might be a good place to look.  I’ve often noticed, while … Continue reading →