Space and Imagination

One of the approaches TSK encourages is speculation and imagination. Given that Space is a topic, I have enjoyed reading passages about Space through various texts using the CD-ROM. One image that is mentioned, and has seemed to be of interest to me, is the notion that the whole universe coming into being could not happen without Space. In some respects, there is this feeling of awe of the power of Space – even the mystery of Space. I try to “carry this image” or nurture this feeling towards my own embodiment.

Another aspect that has been useful, is to contemplate just how transitory conventional knowledge is….what I mean by that is to review just how situations we seem to have invested so much energy and interest in over time, have changed dramatically. I believe LOK and SDTS address this quite a bit—to review just how the truths of a particular time or era that once seemed so certain and indisputable—now look absurd or passé. Also, I have been playing with the image or exercise that when we look back on our experience, we often say in Hindsight “Knowing what I know now, I would have done that differently.” Well, what if that knowing that seems to come later, after the fact, in the future, is always available now, but we don’t know how to access it in time? What if we can imagine right now knowing what we know now is the knowing we will have access to in the seemingly distant future? And, also, related to this, is that can we pretend that we are looking back to this moment and seeing how it changed, and laughing at ourselves for being so over-invested, or not invested enough in a particular situation?

Anyway, perhaps I am getting ahead of the program in bringing in the Time element, but seems focusing on Space triggered these insights and musings.

On the image of the “field,” what comes to me lately is the sense of variability in terms of how inclusive, deep, and expansive one’s awareness/experience of Space is at any particular time. The field notion to me allows for multidimensional spaces—spaces that can co-exist together, and interpenetrate each other. For example, I could still have a sense of space as a container for objects on one dimension, but also be in touch with another space-awareness that recognizes the allowing aspect of space, or feeling that space permeates what appears as solid objects—giving rise simultaneously to a more inclusive feeling of connectedness vis-à-vis Space as common ground between and within “things”. Beyond that, I can imagine other Spaces being available, like Spaces that accommodate not just this moment in time, but past moments and future moments, or places distant to me in space. I might also play with the idea that Space allows for dream images to appear, and try to pretend that the dreams that occur when asleep are still happening in Space, and somehow there is a portal to that Space from the Space that I am in now. I also, right before I wake up, try to be sensitive to the border or space between the dream space and waking space and how there is some interplay between the two.

Then there are the protective spaces or borders—parts of me that seem divided from each other or compartmentalized—as if there was a border guard that tried to keep these spaces from talking or interacting with each other. I am trying right now to feel how certain unwanted habit patterns, or routines that seem too habitual, or other sorts of limitations on my knowing, or energy, are related to Space. This is the area I want to pursue more right now….