Here is the note on my practice session that I submitted by mistake just to Kathleen (too long for a chat box anyway!):
Initially, the future and past that showed up were very ‘close’ — my scope of attention was narrow, so the past and future were just the edges of this moment. I had some thoughts / images that seemed more like alternate realities — not memories or anticipated futures, but more like fictional ‘events’ (such as a sudden image of talking with David on his famous porch). Later, at one point, I had a clear image of being in class at the university this coming Tuesday, a known coming-future. Like Caroline, when I ’embodied’ there, I felt the classroom and the people very sharply, and this moment (with all of you) was a fainter recollection. The overall impression from the whole session was of a complex soup, with past-present-future present at once (so to speak!), bubbling in all directions. Jack’s comment in class that my use of ‘complex’ might be intended to suggest discernment of different elements, rather than it all being mushed together, was exactly right: past and future were differentiated, but it was sort of like Paul Muad’Dib’s experience of time in the Dune series: a complex living mesh rather than a ‘line.’
A pleasure practicing with all of you today,
Bruce