{"id":5794,"date":"2014-05-16T11:03:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T18:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=5794"},"modified":"2014-05-25T17:35:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T00:35:34","slug":"in-search-for-deeper-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=5794","title":{"rendered":"In Search of Deeper Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

The narrative of the self seems to presuppose the linear, historical flow of time. Without linear time, what could happen to whom? How could experience be possible? Perhaps investigating the witness can bring more light into the possibility of a deeper time.<\/p>\n

The challenge to linear time is framed as a challenge to the self. Beneath the patterns of the self is the witness that at first seems to tell the stories of the self. So there is the witness itself, pointing that the vitality of the assertion of something that is<\/em> cannot be denied. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Perhaps the force behind its testimony \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which operates entirely apart from the content of what it has to say \u00e2\u20ac\u201c is a direct expression of the dynamic energy implicit in the flow from past to future and the corresponding vitality of the present.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d LOK 190<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In certain moments, we seem more in tune with the underlying energy that makes experience into a coherent whole\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Energy, awareness and concentration are united and in balance, and a genuine dynamic and power allow us to act in ways that are reliable and effective\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 In such moments reality seems more real, and the witness is at its strongest.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d LOK 193 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But it is just in those moments, with the mind fully focused, the awareness engaged, and energy most dynamic, that the sense of self is most attenuated.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d LOK 197 For the witness can only be witness if it is not appropriated by the self, because it may be bearing false witness.<\/p>\n

This reading bring to my mind a small piece that I have kept a while ago and that clearly illustrates the case where the witness, at its strongest, does not tell stories, revealing itself as a door to a deeper time.<\/p>\n

Proust and the Senses<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"cup<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Slaughtered by a dull day and the prospect of the next day which would be sad, I placed in my lips a spoonful of tea in which I had soaked a piece of madeleine … I shivered, aware of what in a remarkable way was happening with me. An exquisite pleasure had overrun me, alone, without the notion of the cause. (…) I didn\u00c2\u00b4t feel mediocre anymore, contingent, mortal. Where this powerful pleasure came from? (…) All the flowers from our garden and the park of Swann, and the nymphs of the river Vivonne, and the simple folk of the village with its houses, and the whole town of Combray and its surroundings – everything that takes shape and becomes solid, towns and gardens, came from my cup of tea.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

(Piece from In Search of\u00c2\u00a0Lost Time<\/em> from Marcel Proust)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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