Sometimes the TSK vision seems to ask us to repeal all our existing perspectives and notions of how reality works.\u00c2\u00a0 And sometimes it points directly at what we have always believed, but does so in a way that animates these beliefs with new insight and energy.\u00c2\u00a0 In this week’s reading there is a sentence that points to the familiar in a surprising way: “No longer a blank canvas to be filled in through reference to the past, the future emerges as the realm of possibility and freedom–an unbounded opening, available now, available within specifics–precise and definite, yet wholly indeterminate.” (DTS 95).\u00c2\u00a0 What a radical insight that the future is available now (not just at the boundaries of the moment, as we have been practising for the past few weeks, but wherever we look).\u00c2\u00a0 Isn’t this idea also beautifully familiar?\u00c2\u00a0 Not only in the TSK vision itself, but in all the world’s spirtual traditions, in Plato, in George Santayana (who uses the word ‘entelechy’ to invoke the sense that the potential of life is present as a living seed)–this idea that a finer realm animates the\u00c2\u00a0murky, ordinary\u00c2\u00a0realm in which we live, is very familiar.\u00c2\u00a0 What\u00c2\u00a0I find\u00c2\u00a0radical is to call this finer realm the future!\u00c2\u00a0–Michael\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sometimes the TSK vision seems to ask us to repeal all our existing perspectives and notions of how reality works.\u00c2\u00a0 And sometimes it points directly at what we have always believed, but does so in a way that animates these … Continue reading