We start this week on Unit Twelve, the third of our three units on space. It’s a rich set of materials.
The reading asks us to look at concepts and meanings and (KTS Ex. 44) to both see and not see them. On the one hand (TSK 14), “Concepts are simply indications of the relative opacity and resistance of a particular space,” and (TSK 102) “Meanings . . . depend on limits being set on our attention to the dynamism and process of the partitioning.” On the other hand, we do not want to do away with concepts; the alternative of “direct perception” without conceptual structures is really an illusion (KTS 370).
So how to do this? Through recognizing, living within, finding the joy of “multiple dimensionality” and “indeterminate fields of knowledge.” (KTS 371).
I really encourage you to read through the materials in KTS for this unit, if possible several times. The writing here is evocative without being definite, multiple in meaning. It exhibits what is being discussed. So you want to “read and not read it,” “understand and not understand it.” The reading is an instance of KTS Ex. 44. This is important, because the kind of knowing the vision aims to evoke here is not our usual knowing. LOK Ex. 48 may help you make sense of this, but not in the usual way of ‘making sense’, in which ‘you’ make sense.
Make sense?
Jack