Dear all.
encouraged by Jack’s orientation this week, yesterday evening I tried to notice the moment in between the “moments” like described by Jack. In my case it turned down to tracing ‘the movement’ from a current memory/story to a next memory/story. What I noticed was that a tiny little part of the first story triggers a momentum for a second story, in the second story there is again a tiny little part which starts story 3 etc etc. The triggering itself seems to go very fast and sometimes I don’t even noticed this shift from story to story (‘hey hold on, how did I get involved in this particular story … ‘). The shift from story to story is not linear in time at all but could easily jump 10 years back (or a few years forward). I’m still puzzled why a certain part of a story triggers another (next) story …
Eric.
Hi Michael,
thanks for your comment. I like the words you use of ‘weaving together’ the identified stories/things. The metaphor of weaving a tapestry of stories was in my mind when I was writing the post (probably also due to Tina’s poem ‘tapestry unwind’ a few months back). I guess that somehow the ‘X’-moments are not weaven into this tapestry but are lurking somewhere outside of it … does that make sense? After the phone call yesterday I feel confirmed in the sense I had that the ‘weaving together’ is partly ‘a cause and effect’ kind of structure. To me it seems like the whole ‘weaving together’ process might get different though(or stops …?) when you look at all the stories ‘passing by’ in a more meditative way, i.e. watching without getting involved … mmmmm but ‘where/what’ is ‘moment X’ then? I don’t know, that’s were my investigation stopped last time … :).
Eric.
Hi Eric, I was also noticing stories when I tried looking for something between moments. And I started telling a story about the exercise itself: the moments were like blocks of ice, or rafts, flowing on the surface of a stream of time, and underneath there was another kind of time which the exercise calls “X”. I started elaborating this story: the stream is flowing towards an ocean. Then it hit me: I’m continuing a narrative, but narratives can only weave together the things that I’ve identified. If I try to include “X” in my narratives, then it’s just another raft floating on the stream. –Michael