(I wrote this as a comment to csherwood’s post, and it now shows that there is a comment, but when you look there is nothing there. So I’m hoping that the Post funtion does work).
Good Morning, Csherwood across the Sea,
How invigorating it is to have all these voices arising and interacting. I feel the Muse of Time is speaking in the multiplicity of our voices. Your querry about our Moon took me back to an author I studied three decades ago and who indirectly led me to Buddhism: George Gurdjieff. His central premise was that humanity has fallen into such deep unconsciousness that the one remaining avenue by which we can be pulled out is through a “pang of conscience”. His writings then set out to destroy our illusion that we are already awake and promiced that he would supply the true path to awakening in a third series of writing. I don’t think he ever did supply it, but it made me look around for the wisdom traditions that already exist on our planet, which do supply guidance through this strange circumstance of finding ourselves embodied in a world. Speaking of our planet, our world, and our moon: Gurdjieff said that all processes take place within a Law of Seven, where the next group of seven (misical octaves, etc) start over on a higher level in another group of seven. And as with an octave in music, where there are two places within the seven that correspond to semitones, energy must come from outside in order to push the evolution forward. In the solar octave, which includes Earth, Sun, and Moon, the envelop of life around our planet represents a semitone between our Earth and our Moon.  Much of what Gurdjieff wrote remains in my head, not as a guide or even an inspiring invocation to awakening, but I still look at the Moon as a presence that anchors life around me and within me, urging a movement in Time to join hands with others within a greater environment. -Michael
How invigorating it is to have all these voices arising and interacting. I feel the Muse of Time is speaking in the multiplicity of our voices. Your querry about our Moon took me back to an author I studied three decades ago and who indirectly led me to Buddhism: George Gurdjieff. His central premise was that humanity has fallen into such deep unconsciousness that the one remaining avenue by which we can be pulled out is through a “pang of conscience”. His writings then set out to destroy our illusion that we are already awake and promiced that he would supply the true path to awakening in a third series of writing. I don’t think he ever did supply it, but it made me look around for the wisdom traditions that already exist on our planet, which do supply guidance through this strange circumstance of finding ourselves embodied in a world. Speaking of our planet, our world, and our moon: Gurdjieff said that all processes take place within a Law of Seven, where the next group of seven (misical octaves, etc) start over on a higher level in another group of seven. And as with an octave in music, where there are two places within the seven that correspond to semitones, energy must come from outside in order to push the evolution forward. In the solar octave, which includes Earth, Sun, and Moon, the envelop of life around our planet represents a semitone between our Earth and our Moon.  Much of what Gurdjieff wrote remains in my head, not as a guide or even an inspiring invocation to awakening, but I still look at the Moon as a presence that anchors life around me and within me, urging a movement in Time to join hands with others within a greater environment. -Michael
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PS–following up on your wish that there could be a forum for TSK Inquiry available to a community in England, one of the members in our current on-line class, David Filippone, has made available just such a website:
        http://timespaceknowledge.socialgo.com/home.html
It’s worth checking out, not as a replacement to this one, but as a TSK discussion area that is available to anyone with internet access, through all the phases of the Moon.
        http://timespaceknowledge.socialgo.com/home.html
It’s worth checking out, not as a replacement to this one, but as a TSK discussion area that is available to anyone with internet access, through all the phases of the Moon.
Michael,
I do love the very poetic way in which your words take shape. I have read only a tiny bit of Gurdjieff, but the mention of the “group of seven,” especially in relation to our musical class today, has my mind and fascination working overtime (quite enjoyable).
Thank you, Michael, for taking the time to respond so interestingly and fully to my Moon comments! I always found Gurdjieff too complex (and, dare I say it, ‘intellectual’) to be able to follow. Nevertheless I have also been aware that he was a very important character in the opening of esoteric thought/practice in the West. I loved his book (and the film): ‘Meetings with Remarkable Men’. Interestingly, having recently experienced Kum Nye Dancing, the thing it most reminded me of was The Gurdjieff ‘Movements’ uniquely filmed at the end of that movie.
Thank you for the TSK forum link. I am in touch with David Filippone, but didn’t know of his site – I will bring it to the attention of our little UK study group when we next meet.