Hi everyone,<\/p>\n
Our TSK reading for this unit includes discussion of our normal tendency to relate to the spaciousness of the sky as a boundary, an enclosing spherical surface.<\/p>\n
I am presently on holiday (vacation) in the Middle East and yesterday was crossing the expanses of the Jordanian desert. Contemplating the vastness of the sky in this context, as well as of the desert I was passing through, seemed to open up even that small personal ‘me’ to space, enabling ‘me’ to be expanded by its presence. In a place like this, the sky just “is”, it is expansionary, not a ‘boundary’, or a ‘container’.<\/p>\n
Being in such an environment makes it easier for me to understand the concept of ‘nested space’. It is an ‘allowing’ space. We seem to spend so much of our time in a deliberately limited space, attempting to ‘lock space down’. Yet, seeing the vastness of the desert sky and observing the timeless way of life of the bedouin who live here, even if only from the confines of a bus, seems to illustrate to me just how space could ‘nest’ in so many ways in my consciousness, increasing its allowing, accommodating quality as it does so.<\/p>\n
Gaynor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi everyone, Our TSK reading for this unit includes discussion of our normal tendency to relate to the spaciousness of the sky as a boundary, an enclosing spherical surface. I am presently on holiday (vacation) in the Middle East and … Continue reading