{"id":304,"date":"2007-03-04T09:01:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T16:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/2007\/03\/04\/back-to-fullness\/"},"modified":"2012-12-08T11:37:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T19:37:17","slug":"back-to-fullness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"Back to Fullness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Well, the jet lag is fading, and I finally feel able to log back in to what is happening in the online course. My apologies for my sketchy presence over the past three weeks.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">I&#8217;m not going to try to comment very much on recent posts, because in fact they are not that recent. But I was struck by this sentence in a post by Michael (glad to see you on board!):<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&#8220;I glimpsed how moments don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to succeed one another in a linear stream when we aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t in a hurry to be done with the fullness of whatever is before us right now.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The same could be said of space and knowledge. We are eager to fill our world up and to make sense of it, and as a result we really don&#8217;t engage it all. To have this insight may not take us very far (perhaps only to level one: ordinary experience seen in the light of other possibilities). But it is still an opening that matters very much, a possibility that changes everything.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">I have been very aware of feeling closed down: a combination of jet leg, a cold, and a not-quite-having-landed. Seen in the right perspective, this too is a &#8220;fullness&#8221; right now. But ah, not to identify.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Jack<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the jet lag is fading, and I finally feel able to log back in to what is happening in the online course. My apologies for my sketchy presence over the past three weeks. I&#8217;m not going to try to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=304\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01_general","category-tsk-online-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}