Field Communique (Session 4, Assignment 4).
      Compared to these pages in DTS, the image of a field felt more open in the recent readings in KTS. In the presentation of the “field communiqueâ€, where what we know about the field is merely a communication using concepts that reverberate within a closed system of mutually referring definitions, everything is made to seem more limited and less real.
         Regular readers of TSK become accustomed to the ‘sloughs of despond’ into which the text can descend and are able to have faith that a brighter perspective will eventually come. In this case, the suspicion arises that this material is a necessary step toward clearing away the false pretence of an underlying reality—necessary in order that something else can communicate itself. If the communique can be exposed as making a false claim that it represents something more real than itself, then perhaps a fresh voice will be able to make itself heard.
         In our society we have grown used to inveterate liars. Politicians, lawyers, and ubiquitous advertising in all area of life may have had one useful affect. We know that they are not to be believed, because they are only justifying themselves and trying to prevail at any cost and contrary to all evidence.
         Perhaps we can now turn our weary disbelief to good use. If everything we treat as real is actually the communication of a closed system, and as such merely the self-referring, preconceived concepts of a mind helplessly trying to authenticate itself and its world–then why should we believe these claims? Unable to hear the truth within the din of this communique from a field that is itself communication, a first step to hearing something fresh and new may indeed be to see that it is all just a construct pronouncing itself.
We can let the child in us proclaim a more innocent understanding:        “Look Mom, the emperor has no clothsâ€.
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