Well, the jet lag is fading, and I finally feel able to log back in to what is happening in the online course. My apologies for my sketchy presence over the past three weeks.
I’m not going to try to comment very much on recent posts, because in fact they are not that recent. But I was struck by this sentence in a post by Michael (glad to see you on board!):
“I glimpsed how moments don’t have to succeed one another in a linear stream when we aren’t in a hurry to be done with the fullness of whatever is before us right now.”
The same could be said of space and knowledge. We are eager to fill our world up and to make sense of it, and as a result we really don’t engage it all. To have this insight may not take us very far (perhaps only to level one: ordinary experience seen in the light of other possibilities). But it is still an opening that matters very much, a possibility that changes everything.
I have been very aware of feeling closed down: a combination of jet leg, a cold, and a not-quite-having-landed. Seen in the right perspective, this too is a “fullness” right now. But ah, not to identify.
Jack