{"id":6583,"date":"2014-11-22T13:20:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T21:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=6583"},"modified":"2021-01-07T11:51:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T19:51:54","slug":"tsk-ex-28-a-cycle-of-seeing-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=6583","title":{"rendered":"TSK Ex. 28 &#8211; A Cycle of Seeing &#8211; revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9053\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/milky-way-1023340_1280-e1542914552530.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9053\" src=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/milky-way-1023340_1280-e1542914552530.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"830\" height=\"552\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9053\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of:  \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcConstellations\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 &#8211; Pixabay<br \/>https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y7nynxlx<br \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Early on in my TSK studies one of the important exercises for understanding space, the knowing process, and loosening assumptions about the &#8216;weighty&#8217; and fixed ideas of self &#038; identity was <em>The Giant Body<\/em> exercises.  Later, I found <em>The Cycle of Seeing<\/em> exercise also powerful in unraveling my structuring process of the &#8216;temporal order&#8217;.  These exercises have been gifts that continue to open, like trees that produce memorable fruits, which in time yield more.  During the current course, I worked with <strong>memories <\/strong> and saw how they were structured as <em>summaries<\/em>, a way to <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcshort-hand\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/em> mental activity in order to move on to the next point in time while relating <em>this <\/em>to <em>that<\/em>, and <em>then <\/em>to <em>now<\/em>, in a strategic intentional way while navigating through the time and space of my life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">With <em>The Cycle of Seeing<\/em> exercise we are asked to think of a list of ten \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<em>things<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, (objects, qualities, and other common contents of experience, such as a car, an orange, a piece of music, a tactile quality, etc.),  to remember them, then throughout the day recall them in sequence, in effect spin them in memory.  Sounds simple enough, right?  Ha ha!  :-)  It is such a clever implementation of a &#8216;<em>constellation<\/em>&#8216; of thoughts, because each \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<em>thing<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 involves a subset of choices, and a deeper subset of assumptions.  Each assumption builds and relates to others, each judgment relates to a choice that also relates, in turn, to others.  Each \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<em>thing<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 involves a net of relationships.  Eventually, you choose your 10 \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<em>things<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, spinning them as you go in order to commit them to memory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At some point you may realize you have created a cosmos of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<em>things<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, your own little spinning Galaxy&#8230; held in relationship by a centrifugal force held by spinning, held together by the gravity of a logos that you have mostly unconsciously structured.  You can actually observe this, because you can get really good at spinning your Galaxy, you get a little distance from it in your mind, you might even get a little cocky about how good you are at recalling these things and keeping your constellation spinning! I recall doing just that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">And then\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 just like with <em>The Giant Body<\/em> exercises when suddenly solid things become transparent, so too with <em>The Cycle of Seeing<\/em> exercise&#8230; the tight structuring, the judgments, the value systems you employed [the invisible glue], and why you unconsciously made all these decisions becomes &#8216;wobbly.&#8217; As it spins, the distance I imputed from my spinning became intermittent, gravity let go, and the tightly compact spinning Galaxy started to unravel\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 because you see with intimate eyes.  You see with a more encompassing knowing, a kind of zero openness or transparency of what you did and why you did it.  It can be a poignant and profound moment, an &#8216;ah ha&#8217; moment!  Great fun!  :-)<\/p>\n<p>If interested, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I wrote back in 2009\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 a little more detailed and specific&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>TSK Ex. 28 &#8211; A Cycle of Seeing<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=957\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=957<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early on in my TSK studies one of the important exercises for understanding space, the knowing process, and loosening assumptions about the &#8216;weighty&#8217; and fixed ideas of self &#038; identity was The Giant Body exercises. Later, I found The Cycle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=6583\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,107,78,69],"tags":[79,81,169,195,107,69],"class_list":["post-6583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions","category-process","category-thought","category-time","tag-arising","tag-awareness","tag-higher-knowing","tag-intimacy","tag-process","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6583","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}