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DO YOU MOSTLY THINK IN THOUGHTS OR IMAGES?

For class, I was asked to write a page or so on the question… EXPERIENTIALLY, DO YOU MOSTLY THINK IN THOUGHTS OR IN IMAGES (or in some other way)? It’s a ‘tricky’ question. It invites internal inquiry and observation. But … Continue reading

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THE STREAM OF THINKING…

THE STREAM OF THINKING… In the winter of 2011, Jack Petranker taught the second of three, 9-week segments of a 27-week Time, Space, Knowledge (TSK) class – THE STREAM OF THINKING. The course consisted of weekly, 1) on-line conference calls … Continue reading

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Subject-Object Circling…

Sometimes I feel I’m going in circles… the mind has me in a set way of thinking, tracks that lead me into repeating behaviors… habits… familiar ‘mind-sets‘ and biases. Problems I address using the same parameters, the same myopic perspective, … Continue reading

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Beyond Language

Came across this article having read it several years ago. It’s written by a Zen Buddhist, and it’s quite good, in my ‘view’… I see parallels with my interests in language, poetry, and other studies. I often say I am … Continue reading

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Awash in Time

Interesting article… “One of the most intriguing physics discoveries of the last century was the existence of antimatter, material that exists as the “mirror image” of subatomic particles of matter, such as electrons, protons and quarks, but with the opposite … Continue reading

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Opposites in the same Time and Space

As Being… the past is happening still. It seems like an odd thing to say, but there is a sense in which it is a valid observation…when the point holds the whole… conflicting conceptual things can be so… at the … Continue reading

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Inviting Light

Working With Memories – (DTS Exercise 18 – Pastness Knowledge), can be quite similar to inviting “light as source by sinking ‘beneath’ the contents of mind, turning to inward illumination.” DTS 212 That is what Ken and I were doing … Continue reading

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Conducting New Knowledge – DTS Ex. 4G, 4B

In the TSK Teachers Training course we’ve been working on the Knowledge aspect of the Time, Space, Knowledge vision. My teacher Jack Petranker says in his new book, ‘Inside Knowledge’: “There is something fundamental about who we are, about our … Continue reading

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A New Kind of Space

An important point in the TSK inquiry can be put in this way: Whatever they happen to be about, and whatever form they take, thoughts communicate “the substantiality of their content.” By insisting on substance, they obscure space freedom. What … Continue reading

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A Thought of Beauty

“The lower space we live in is not a solid and continuous place. It changes, becoming more or less open, with each single thought.” TSK 244. This quote also raises a separate but deeply important question: is each thought its … Continue reading

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