{"id":5944,"date":"2014-07-19T13:45:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T20:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=5944"},"modified":"2014-07-21T09:19:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T16:19:27","slug":"a-mirror-and-its-reflection-a-thought-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=5944","title":{"rendered":"A Mirror and its Reflection (a thought experiment)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Session 6, Assignment for Week 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>In the film \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gravity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d there is a scene in which Sandra Bullock is spinning wildly in open space after an explosion has torn apart their space station and flung the astronauts afield.\u00c2\u00a0 This scene gives you a sense of the vastness of space and how negligible human artifacts are within it.\u00c2\u00a0 (Thor Heyerdahl experiences something similar, but in two dimensions instead of three, when he and his crew paddle out from Kon-Tiki and, looking back, see a tiny cork–their whole world for months–bobbing up and down on the boundless Ocean).<\/strong><\/p>\n

After moments of sheer terror, she sees the remnants of the space station and uses her jet packs to cover the distance.\u00c2\u00a0 Her discovery of a few pieces of metal in the vastness of space came to mind when I read the following phrase (on the theme that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Thoughts take form out of awakened awareness . . .):<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is something like letting the images in a mirror guide us to the mirror.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d DTS 283.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>What a striking image.\u00c2\u00a0 What if a mirror, spinning in space, came alongside someone who is themselves spinning in space, and reflected back the starry firmament?\u00c2\u00a0 At first it might be invisible against the backdrop of similar points of light.\u00c2\u00a0 But once noticed, the stars reflected in the mirror might appear more manageable than the infinite background–with no measure of distance possible.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And how comforting when this mirror briefly reflects the self back to itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>A sense of kinship between the depth of space and this rectangular plane (containing, limiting and flattening its reflections of the whole), might make it possible to notice the vastness of starry firmament to which the mirror\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reflection owes its being.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>Perhaps familiar reflections, viewed in the light of a greater wholeness (field, logos, unified time), can provide such glimpses of another vaster realm.\u00c2\u00a0 We just need to sense that these reflections are not the final word\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnot substantial, not linear, not known entities.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Session 6, Assignment for Week 2. \u00c2\u00a0In the film \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gravity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d there is a scene in which Sandra Bullock is spinning wildly in open space after an explosion has torn apart their space station and flung the astronauts afield.\u00c2\u00a0 This scene … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944","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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}