I followed my usual practice of conducting my TSK inquiry while taking a walk on a break at work.\u00c2\u00a0 I explored a number of things as I shifted from one sense field to another, but what stood out for me — in terms of the difference of the feel among fields — was their relationship to space and to my ‘subjective’ space.\u00c2\u00a0 The first thing I noted was that vision established the world ahead of me, but hearing established the world all around me and there was more of a sense of immersion.\u00c2\u00a0 For vision, I was occupying a ‘point’ at the bottom of a pyramid of vision and so somehow felt more apart from the visual field than I did when attending to the field of sonorous presences, which arose and thrummed on all sides.\u00c2\u00a0 Listening gave me more of a sense of a 360-surround, and I felt in the midst of presences, instead of at a removed point in front of them.\u00c2\u00a0 (At one point, I was disconcerted because some of the things I was seeing, including people, suddenly began to appear very unreal to me).<\/p>\n
When I shifted to the feel of the sense of smell, I noticed that it seemed much more like a state of the body than an ‘object’ out in space; it was very close, not really located anywhere ‘out there.’\u00c2\u00a0 And the same was the case with taste and touch.\u00c2\u00a0 They seemed more naively egocentric, and I could link them imaginatively to primitive states of predifferentiation.\u00c2\u00a0 Seeing felt ‘agentic’ and me-centered in a more developed way.\u00c2\u00a0 Attending to the agentic feel of the visual field, I noticed that it seemed tied to the (directed, sometimes purposeful) movement of my eyes, whereas my ears were more passive receptors — perhaps a more feminine than masculine mode of perception.\u00c2\u00a0 (Though I imagined if I was a dog or cat and able to cock my ears purposefully in different directions, perhaps I would experience hearing a little differently…)<\/p>\n
More later!<\/p>\n
Bruce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I followed my usual practice of conducting my TSK inquiry while taking a walk on a break at work.\u00c2\u00a0 I explored a number of things as I shifted from one sense field to another, but what stood out for me … Continue reading