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Pain as a bridge into the dynamic aliveness of time

“Is there an exercise or a way of seeing that would let us build a bridge between the linear-time alternative of the self-story and the dynamic underlying aliveness of it ? In DTS there is a chapter “Healing Time” in … Continue reading

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Week 4 Walkabout

De-center the narrative sequence of events in time that usually occupies our attention in favor of the dynamic aliveness that powers that sequence. Exploring this on several occasions this week, what appeared for me most strongly was the insight that … Continue reading

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In Search of Deeper Time

The narrative of the self seems to presuppose the linear, historical flow of time. Without linear time, what could happen to whom? How could experience be possible? Perhaps investigating the witness can bring more light into the possibility of a … Continue reading

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A Living Field

During our last class there was discussion that some people found it easier to access the openness of space than access a non-linear time. This dilemma might be seen through as we recognize space to be enlivened by times animating presence. … Continue reading

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Science, dogma and inquiry

One of the UK study group circulated this interesting talk by Rupert Sheldrake. You may have seen it, but if not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHUaNAxsTg

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Three Nows, The Future Infinitive, and Triple-Loop Awareness

Inspired by the discussion on ‘alternatives’ to linear time in class this morning, I decided to post here a blog I published on an Integral Theory website a number of years ago:   Recently, a Buddhist teacher and friend of … Continue reading

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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

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The Story Of Our Time

Perhaps the primary story that informs our way of knowing and our way of being is the story of the self as an entity, separate from all it knows. The story is conveyed by culture, time, family of origin and by immediate … Continue reading

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Let’s Dance

It is said that change is rare if we conduct the “continuity of the same”. Today I saw clearly in my experience this “continuity of the same”. I had just arrived and met a coworker complaining about things that could … Continue reading

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Light as source for the rhythms of time

How does the possibility of a deeper time relate to the possibility of a temporal rhythm, that is not linked to the usual linear momentum? I think both terms are talking about the same: a non linear temporal rhythm is … Continue reading

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