Space as Field

I see that not much activity has been taking place. We are closing out the first week of Unit 10, on Space as Field, so it would be good to hear from people how this is going. 

As this unit suggests, we are turning now to the experience of space, and ‘space as field’ is a way to engage that. I myself have found this one of the most helpful topics in the whole TSK vision, so I encourage you to reflect on it.

The basic idea is this: the whole of our experience arises within a field. It can be helpful here to think in terms of a movie. Very often when a movie starts, we are thrown into a context, a world, and we are asked to accept the structures of that world. For instance, in the opening of the movie West Side Story, we start overlooking the city of New York seen from far above. The camera begins to zoom in, closer and closer, until we find ourselves on one block of one street in a gang-ridden neighborhood of Manhattan. The message is clear: we are entering a world, a world with very strong local boundaries. The story will unfold within that world, that field.
Of course, the field in TSK is active at a much deeper level. In the field of first-level space, the self stands at the center, and its concerns and projects are like beams of energy that define and even hold open the field (think of the tent poles that let you set up a tent.
The description at KTS p. 184 is a good experiential point of entry for this whole way of exploring: space as a creative and allowing medium. Can you approach each experience with a sensitivity to the medium that allows that experience? For instance, looking up just now, I saw two people: an old friend and a new acquaintance. The ‘field’ that includes their presence in the most natural way has a temporal dimension: the circumstances under which I have met and interacted with these two people in the past. It is not a question of calling those memories to mind, but of letting the sense of the past be present as part of the field.

Is that of interest?

Jack