{"id":6129,"date":"2014-08-24T08:39:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T15:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=6129"},"modified":"2014-09-23T13:23:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T20:23:54","slug":"out-of-the-ordinary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=6129","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Ordinary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picking up on Jack\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s point: that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153out of the ordinary\u00e2\u20ac\u009d indicates point of origin as well as destination, I thought of another familiar phrase:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Departing the familiar<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sitting in a railway carriage as it pulls out from Charing Cross station (or Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Montreal) we depart the city and travel along tracks (that were forged in smelters and poured into moulds).\u00c2\u00a0 Traversing the fields, we view the cows, horses, crows, through the rectangular frame of our coach window.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recognizing that lower is on a continuum with higher, we feel the padded seat beneath us, appreciate the landscape passing before our mind\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eye (the click-click-clicking of the wheels on the tracks, the ding-ding-dinging as children wave from cars parked at the crossings), the slow turning of Gaia on her axis, our Sun and solar system, the clouds of interstellar gas from which we and our home planet congealed so long ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>Travelling in a time that enables all this to dance before us and in us, abiding as a child of a space that allows all this to rise and fall, like waves rolling onto the beach of awareness, fathoming a sea in which all is knowing and knowable\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwe begin to merge into this buoyant realm and relax our desperate struggle to stay afloat on its surface.\u00c2\u00a0 Sinking into the lower we discover a higher view within the dancing wholeness of being.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Picking up on Jack\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s point: that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153out of the ordinary\u00e2\u20ac\u009d indicates point of origin as well as destination, I thought of another familiar phrase: \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Departing the familiar. Sitting in a railway carriage as it pulls out from … 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":[136,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions","category-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129","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=6129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}