In the last days I´ve got a undertow of frustration through fixation. Other words: my kind of thinking got tighter and tighter. And with only one remark the spook was over.
I´ve been stuck with this “linear time”, moment for moment; a thinking spiral toward inside. In the reading”Compelling Flow of Time” the 2nd sentence has had the effect like a fulcrum………that the present is somehow broad enough to encompass more than one moment. The next loosening I`ve got through the picture of Michael( I´m not sure!) in one of his posts, observing the flow of water(river) and the leaf flowing on it. Broader than one in one moment(two “things” in one moment. And if I observe the flow of the water (in this moment) and can see a swarm of waterfowl flying off – I catch a lot of details in one moment.
Now I discovered a new trace in the reading: what happens in the” first moment” – one event? The astrophysicists are telling about a lot of more in their “big bang”. By the way, is “big bang” perhaps a sophisticated way of acknowledging their not-knowing. Or do they know more about “beyond time”.
Last sentence on p 123….relate to a human scale of comprehension and to the dimensions of human experience: Yes, and we, better I, always try to relate the standards for structures of thoughts to o n e ” event”, means a singulare event. What`s about multiple events in one moment ( of the linear time; moment for moment more than one event). And by the way of this trace of thinking: there is no one unconsciousness – 3-4 billions ( as human beings are living on earth). And we don`t speak, till now, about C.G. Jung`s : collective unconsciousness.
At the end, in the key words, I see: possibility of unconscious time. I don`t understand this not in a general meaning; but how can I understand it? In which person? The questions are exceptionally encreasing.
Arthur
Hi Michael,
reading your reflections about my reading before – I can better see about what and how I have written about my experiences. Through the “glases” of another one I better see where I am, with what komplex and difficult experiences we work. We shall see in the next weeks what else we can discover. Thanks
Arthur
Hi Arthur,
Your post is a good example of the very “breadth” you are talking about. You throw many ingredients into the soup and then add salt and pepper to taste! Reading what you wrote, I thought of our theme for this week: how memory builds up the self; and how without a self we have no world. Instead of thinking this is a problem, perhaps we could celebrate the breadth of this awareness: past, present, inside, outside–all collaborating in our experience. Specifically, allowing awareness to hold a memory that has influenced us, together with a sense of how we carry that influence in us at this very moment, feels like a good example of this “broad enough” foothold in time. Thanks for sharing your reflections. –Michael