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Personifying Thoughts, Embodying Space (TSK Unit 2, Week 5)

Posted on Feb 14th, 2009 by Balder : Kosmonaut 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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Watching Thoughts (TSK Class 2, Unit 2)

Posted on Jan 22nd, 2009 by Balder : Kosmonaut 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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Subject-Object Reversal (TSK Class 9)

Posted on Dec 2nd, 2008 by Balder : Kosmonaut 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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Week Four: Expanding Layers of Mind

Posted on Oct 31st, 2008 by Balder : Kosmonaut 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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Week Three: Exploring Space and Form

Posted on Oct 23rd, 2008 by Balder : Kosmonaut 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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Layers of Mind (TSK Practice Notes)

Posted on Oct 9th, 2008 by Balder : Kosmonaut Balder

The exercise for the first week of the course is Layers of Mind, an introductory practice from the beginning of Love of Kn o wledge .  Here are the instructions: Note the kinds of mental... More »

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Online TSK Course

Posted on Oct 9th, 2008 by Balder : Kosmonaut Balder

Beginning this week, I am participating in a Time-Space-Knowledge online study program with Jack Petranker, a respected TSK teacher and author of When It Rains, Does Space Get Wet?   The title of the course... More »

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Steps Towards Integral Deep Dialogue, Part 2

Posted on May 20th, 2007 by Balder : Kosmonaut Balder

Contemplative Dialogue The process of interfaith dialogue described in part one of this essay can be understood as a particular expression of a larger experiment that has been taking place over the past several decades: ... More »

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