Assignment Week 2

“Though various conventional views hold that there was an origin or an original dynamic factor of our familiar world order, the vision presented here holds instead that it is the output of a focus or optional perspective on Great Space.” – TSK p.83

This aspect of the view is very interesting to me and seems pivotal in the process of opening to Space and Time. At first the question seems exclusively like a time issue – do our being, experience and world order ‘exist’ and ‘develop’ from a deep progressively unfolding continuity, or are they instantaneously available or ‘created’ from the reservoir of invariable time?

Experientially, the history of the world seems to have little immediate import, but for the self, our life story and local world order play a central role in how we embody space and time. At times we are inspired by our originating, all-consuming story; at other times we are burdened by it. But this misses the greater opportunity.

Although time seems to be the central factor in a view that validates an origin to the world order or the self, space plays an unexpected role. In the usual view, space plays almost no role; it is not active in the way time is. It is inert, unknown, and inactive.

But if the understanding that focal settings represent comes into view, then the whole of our world, even in its time extent, can be seen in its space component – can be seen through. This seeing-through is in the nature of space. This seeing-through opens us to the active nature of space. It allows for there being no need for progression, unfolding or development, which are the usual requirements of a conventional time view. It allows for Space appearance, not predicated on origins.

The entire world order, or the local world of the self and it’s developing story can be seen to be optional, and very ‘light’ in nature. The great burden of deep linear time and narrative are relieved. Space allows us to spread out through all appearance and meaning, confined by neither. It penetrates the spell of the world order and reveals freedom, and the creative functionality of other world orders or self-stories. Our being seems to be grounded in the Great Space dimension – therefore, access is potentially unlimited and the limits of a world order can be seen as fluid and changeable.