{"id":2711,"date":"2012-11-09T06:39:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T14:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=2711"},"modified":"2012-12-07T14:14:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T22:14:54","slug":"timely-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=2711","title":{"rendered":"Timely musings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I find that when I turn attention \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTime-wards\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c such as when moving from room to room \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it is as though \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI am<\/em> time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as though time and what \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI am\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 are not separate.<\/p>\n

In the last 24 hours a series of obstacles which have seemed un-blockable have suddenly released and I have been able to clear\/accomplish several things which were stuck over the last few weeks. I ask: is this inherent in time or is it something to do with \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchow I am in time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (thinking of phrases \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbeing in time\/on time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 being \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcout of time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (eg as a dancer or a musician).<\/p>\n

Also contemplating phases of the Moon: with a new Moon on Tuesday, things from the end of this cycle seem to be being resolved within the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdark of the Moon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 leading up to the beginning of the next cycle. What is the real significance of the Moon in human affairs? I am interested to sense\/know beyond age old theories about time, tides and cycles, whether taught by scientific or esoteric traditions.<\/p>\n

These are all more questions than statements. I often have the feeling that I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a clue as to how to approach Time and am completely at a loss about making any sort of coherent, intelligent or informed comments about it.<\/p>\n

I love the idea of building a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCommunity of Inquiry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and will recommend that the little UK Study Group lends its energy to this endeavour.<\/p>\n

I found this explanation of Jack\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very helpful:<\/p>\n

One moment I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m eating a forkful of omelet, and the next moment I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m thinking about the upcoming election. The ppf structure of the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcforkful\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 moment has nothing to do with the ppf structure of the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcelection\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 moment. If you look from outside (or reflect back on the temporal sequence later); in other words, if you measure time on a clock, you might say that the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcforkful\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 moment happened at 0:00:52 and the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcelection\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 moment happened at 0:00:53. But that has nothing to do with the ppf structure of each moment. In terms of experience, the moments are radically separate.<\/em><\/p>\n

Such an example helps to provide an area to focus on. Often I find my attention spinning off in all directions when I try to focus on time. It strikes me that this directly refers to Space and Knowledge as well as talking about time!<\/p>\n

I also found Jack\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s line, It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like driving a car without knowing how the engine works, or relying on awareness without in any way understanding what awareness is <\/em>a useful comparison to get a sense of how linear (\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcobjective\u00e2\u20ac\u2122) time differs from the fullness of experiential time. How does this relate to the 3 levels of time?<\/p>\n

Last summer on the retreat in Germany we experimented with diving into the past, present or future of each moment as it arose. I found this a totally remarkable and wonderful exercise which revealed qualities of awareness and being which seemed to be more to do with what I would describe as \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcinner spaces\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 rather than anything I would usually associate with Time. I certainly find it helpful to approach the exploration of time via exercises, otherwise it just feels too vast, confusing and elusive to connect with.<\/p>\n

Thanks for alerting me to Cloud Atlas. The film isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t released in the UK until next February, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ordered the book from the library. It strikes me that even in writing these two sentences, the three threads of ppf and something greater are all at play. How interesting!<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m finding lines from Burnt Norton, <\/em>one of T. S. Eliot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Four Quartets coming to mind: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIf all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. Not sure how relevant this is to our inquiry.<\/p>\n

I often have the feeling of being on the verge of splitting apart at the edges when I place attention on time \u00e2\u20ac\u201c being exploded into a reality which cannot be encompassed by language and which will continue to expand and dissolve any concrete idea I might try to come up with about how things actually are\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6! Is there actually anything that we can accurately say about this that is definitive, or is it simply an experiential matter which can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be adequately languaged?<\/p>\n

I also have a niggling sense that if I could get beyond perceiving the way I do by habit, then a whole different realisation about time would open up instantly before\/within\/around \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcme\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. What does this say about \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcme\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and what does it say about \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctime\u00e2\u20ac\u2122?<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdifferent lineages evolving side by side\u00e2\u20ac\u2122; like \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclooking at a complex family tree\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 seems to be an important comment and a key to entering a whole new realisation about how \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcreality\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 actually \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcworks\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n

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I find that when I turn attention \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTime-wards\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c such as when moving from room to room \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it is as though \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI am time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as though time and what \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI am\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 are not separate. In the last 24 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,79,65,75,87,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01_general","category-arising","category-class-discussions-fall-2012-tsk-online-course","category-organization","category-systems","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}