Dabbling in TSK feels like taking a guided tour through a foreign land. \u00c2\u00a0This morning I read a good part of Jack’s Space essay in A New Way of Being, and at some point I realized with pleasure that I was being led to approach Space in a new way. \u00c2\u00a0Not as an abstraction and not as a sacred cow of TSK (and hence too deep and meaningful for me to really understand). \u00c2\u00a0But as something more like the “Lipid Raft” in the Life of the Cell video to which Bruce posted a link. \u00c2\u00a0In that video, there is a cylindrical raft on which a loan sailor (I guess he must be a lipid protein) is skudding across a truly exotic region from some part of the world I can’t remember ever visiting, even in dream. \u00c2\u00a0And reading Jack’s essay, in which he explores what space projecting space into space might mean, it all seemed so simple, so true of my own experience. \u00c2\u00a0I expect there is a double simplification going on: 1\/ Jack trying to make the arcane familiar, and 2\/ me trying to make the familiar true (because I would rather feel competent than incompetent, and in the swim than drowning in obscurity). \u00c2\u00a0But I felt that I understood while reading Jack’s essay that the individual spaces–which float every experience, thought, sensation, perception, theory, and insight–are all sailing across a sea of space too vast to comprehend in its totality, but on life rafts of space, specially outfitted for their cargo, which I am able to understand. \u00c2\u00a0The ocean is always there, in local manifestations which are more accessible because they are part of my experience. \u00c2\u00a0Drawn out of \u00c2\u00a0a more fundamental space, these individual rafts are fashioned from the same ocean brine as the larger sea from whence they have arisen. \u00c2\u00a0In a sense these rafts are limited, occupying only the range needed for their particular space application, but they are also a doorway into an all encompassing space. \u00c2\u00a0Made of space, they come and go like morning mist, but while we are sailing on them, we can contact a spacious presence that is approachable because it is intimately connected with our interests, focal lengths, \u00c2\u00a0and intentions. \u00c2\u00a0–Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dabbling in TSK feels like taking a guided tour through a foreign land. \u00c2\u00a0This morning I read a good part of Jack’s Space essay in A New Way of Being, and at some point I realized with pleasure that I … Continue reading