{"id":9638,"date":"2020-05-07T11:50:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9638"},"modified":"2020-05-12T20:06:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T03:06:28","slug":"space-without-directionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9638","title":{"rendered":"SPACE WITHOUT DIRECTIONALITY\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SPACE WITHOUT DIRECTIONALITY\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Ken\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s poem\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 or playful inquiry, as always, invites me to a space\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 where a tentative order could cohere, where incipient structure could begin to formulate\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 to source, to origin\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 a depth where seeds of knowledge uncurl. The field is perturbed, a wave manifests movement\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I playfully entertain what unfolds\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and am reminded of this quote\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you travel far enough, it will no longer make sense to attempt to refer your movements to the original point from which you began or to any other fixed point. It is important to get clear on this point experientially, so allow yourself time to imagine the travels through space that lead to this outcome\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 As you continue, your sense of space and its spaciousness may shift or open, or there may be other subtle changes in the feeling tone or quality of your experience. Let your experience and your inquiry expand in the direction of these changes.<\/p>\n

Whether the universe is open or closed, it seems that space as such cannot come to an end, for if it did, there would have to be \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcanother space\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 beyond it. How can we understand this unbounded nature of space? For instance, we say that space has three dimensions. How does this dimensionality relate to the unendingness of space? Would it make more sense to say that space is endlessly flat in all possible directions? All possible dimensions? Again, if space has no end or border, can we say that it has a center? Could we reach this center? How can we link our conclusions to our own sense of being at the center of space?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6..\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Dynamics of Time and Space,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by Tarthang Tulku, p. 275-6<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

OUT OF THE BOX
\n\tBy Ken McKeon<\/p>\n

I kind of lived before the first order
\n Lonely, unassembled, mildly afraid,
\n I, free of form,
\n A jam box of particles,
\n No legs, no arms,
\nNot even tubular possibilities of trunk or neck,
\n Just stray notes floating,
\n But no song being sung,
\n No jazz bent shepherd
\n Riffing on a flute
\n In a play to call
\n All the loose sheep
\n Back to the fold,<\/p>\n

The openness of starlight beamed on through,
\n Could have been
\n Klieg lights on parade,
\n Could have been on a stage,
\n But no such luck,
\n No way, no how,
\nPossibilities might exist without the knowledge of anyone,
\n But one hinges on the other,
\n And neither were around,<\/p>\n

And then under the vastly open entablature of time,
\n A pillar showed beneath me like a god,
\n And I could stand,
\n Atlas held,
\n A world of my own,
\n And I thought to take myself
\n Out for a spin,
\n That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how my life began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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