Posted on Feb 14th, 2009
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Balder
For our practice this week, we continued attending to the role of stories and narratives in our lives, while also taking up a formal exercise from Dynamics of Time and Space : Exercise 9,... More »
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Posted on Jan 31st, 2009
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Balder
In my previous entry (see Part 1 ), I reported on a number of the different "levels" and contexts in which I found story-telling to be playing itself out, but I didn't unpack these instances... More »
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Posted on Jan 30th, 2009
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Balder
For the third week of the TSK course, we have shifted our focus from thoughts to the stories that inform and inter-link them -- taking more of a temporal perspective on thinking. As Jack... More »
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Posted on Jan 22nd, 2009
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Balder
For the first two weeks of the TSK course, we've been reflecting on the consolidating, worlding power of thought -- its capacity to establish substance and identity, to project familiarity forward, to construct seamless, bubble-like... More »
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Posted on Jan 9th, 2009
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Balder
In several days, I'll be starting the second unit of the TSK Online Course I began this past fall, and as before, I plan to post my "practice notes" as weekly blog entries. This unit... More »
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Posted on Jan 3rd, 2009
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Balder
The following video, a visualization of the beauty and artfulness of math, resonates with me also as a sort of meditation on space, time, and knowledge. As you watch it, I invite you not merely... More »
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Posted on Dec 6th, 2008
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Balder
Recently, Hokai posted a blog on stages and states of time awareness that invites us to take an integral perspective on what we mean by "the power of Now." Here is what he says: You... More »
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Posted on Dec 2nd, 2008
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Balder
In our final week of the first unit of the TSK course, we are working with an exercise called Subject-Object Reversal. I haven't been able to keep up with posting my practice notes for the past... More »
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Posted on Oct 31st, 2008
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Balder
For week four, the reading explores challenges to conventional notions of "substance," and the practice we are working with involves expanding the layers of mind we explored previously -- taking an object of our experience,... More »
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Posted on Oct 23rd, 2008
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Balder
For Week 3 of the TSK Course , we are focusing on the presence or experience of space as a type of context or non-content, and exploring the relationship of space to the "layers of... More »
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