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The Preciousness of Form

Posted on Mar 30th, 2009 by Balder : Kosmonaut Balder

I had an interesting dream last night.  I entered into and merged with a sense of boundless space -- no forms, no experiences or discriminations for an indeterminate amount of time, until the world began... More »

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Telling Stories 2 (TSK Unit Two, Week Three)

Posted on Jan 31st, 2009 by Balder : Kosmonaut 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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Telling Stories (TSK Unit 2, Week 3)

Posted on Jan 30th, 2009 by Balder : Kosmonaut 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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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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TSK Online Course (Unit 2)

Posted on Jan 9th, 2009 by Balder : Kosmonaut 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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Exhibitions of Zero, Flowers of Space

Posted on Jan 3rd, 2009 by Balder : Kosmonaut 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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Sculpting in Micro-Space: The Work of Willard Wigan

Posted on Dec 31st, 2008 by Balder : Kosmonaut Balder

With thanks to Mascha for bringing this to my attention... Amazing work!  Playing with the unseen, carving beauty out of "nothing at all"...

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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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Deepening Layers of Mind (Week Two)

Posted on Oct 12th, 2008 by Balder : Kosmonaut Balder

In Week 2, we are continuing with the same practice as last week, Layers of Mind, focusing on the relationships among space, mind, and inquiry.  To support this practice, or as an alternative, Jack has suggested... More »

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