I am enjoying the course as well.\u00c2\u00a0 It is encouraging me to stay steadily with study, inquiry, and practice, instead of intermittently as I had been recently.\u00c2\u00a0 I am glad that more people are posting, though; it was feeling awfully quiet in here!\u00c2\u00a0 I really appreciate hearing others’ perspectives and questions, which can prompt new directions in my own inquiry as well.<\/p>\n
I have found the transition from attending to non-content layers of mind to “space as non-content or context” to be helpful and interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 Jack says he may have been reaching too much, but for me, I thought the connection was insightful.\u00c2\u00a0 Having been focusing on layers of mind as context, it was both easy to change over to space — it felt like the same sort of “movement” of attention to open to it — but also challenging, because I wasn’t clear how “layers” and “space” were actually related.<\/p>\n
Was space another layer?\u00c2\u00a0 That’s how it appeared at first.\u00c2\u00a0 But then I began to see layers as space as well — different overlapping, sometimes interpenetrating spaces.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
I had missed the conference call and didn’t pick up on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153space in memory\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as a line of inquiry for this week till a couple days ago.\u00c2\u00a0 My inquiry into space in memory yesterday was along the lines of my previous paragraph:\u00c2\u00a0 first I was looking at how the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sense\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of space shows up in a given memory.\u00c2\u00a0 I noticed the different \u00e2\u20ac\u0153contextual\u00e2\u20ac\u009d things that seemed to be necessary to give a sense of space – both in terms of the proportional configuration images, and also via subtle feelings or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153movements\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in my body.\u00c2\u00a0 Space in that sense was\u00c2\u00a0another construct.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I began to see or experience memory itself as space.\u00c2\u00a0 I experienced this in different ways:\u00c2\u00a0 the memory both evoked a particular space and also seemed to evince space in its very arising.\u00c2\u00a0 Space in that sense allowed for<\/em> ongoing construction.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Then I began to see or experience memory itself as space.\u00c2\u00a0 I experienced this in different ways:\u00c2\u00a0 the image both evoked a particular space and also seemed to evince space in its very arising.\u00c2\u00a0 Space in that sense allowed for<\/em> ongoing construction.\u00c2\u00a0 There was also\u00c2\u00a0a sense of a hidden “background” space, as I watched one memory trigger other (long forgotten) ones, and they all lit up together as a kind of constellation, rising out of the un-knowing of my unconscious.\u00c2\u00a0 I had a science fiction image come to mind: some kind of wormhole or tunnel in space, opening deeper along a particular “line” or timespace trajectory\u00c2\u00a0as memories triggered one another.<\/p>\n Best wishes,<\/p>\n Bruce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am enjoying the course as well.\u00c2\u00a0 It is encouraging me to stay steadily with study, inquiry, and practice, instead of intermittently as I had been recently.\u00c2\u00a0 I am glad that more people are posting, though; it was feeling awfully … Continue reading